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In conjunction with Donovan and the RootED team, Eschbacher is considering such statistics from every conceivable angle."Sometimes, we look from the inside out: How many kids did we have last year? With the 2020 Census data, we've been looking from the outside in, to see if we're missing something in terms of the way students are going to private schools, being home- schooled, attending charter schools is another district," he notes.
He compares Denver to"Austin, Nashville, New Orleans — cities that are very dynamic. There are a lot of housing price increases, because often these are the best cities to live in. But even though there are tons of adults moving in, there's been a reduction in the number of students. So this isn't just a DPS story, but a city story."
Nonetheless, Donovan interjects,"the district has certainly seen a decline in student enrollment, and there's a need to look at that from a pure, pragmatic standpoint. There are just not enough students to support the basic educational needs in some schools. You have to have a certain number of students to provide the programming, a certain number of teachers, support staff, professional counselors.
The ripples of these issues are being felt beyond the individual facility level."If you have one school that's under 300 students, you have a minor challenge," Eschbacher says."But if you have an entire region, like the southwest part of Denver, with fifteen or twenty schools in that situation, you've got a significant challenge."
Before opening up his own consulting firm, Eschbacher served as DPS's executive director of planning and choice, and around the time he left the position in 2017,"you'd see schools with enrollment that wasn't where you wanted it to be," he recalls."But that's gone from one school to five schools to ten schools to fifteen schools to entire regions of the city, and that can really change the student experience.
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