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Megan Gildow of the News-Sun newspaper in Springfield, Ohio, covers local school districts, their teachers, students and anything in between. Districts she covers include: Springfield City Schools, Clark-Shawnee Local Schools, Northeastern Local Schools, Northwestern Local Schools, Tecumseh Local Schools, Southeastern Local Schools, Greenon Local Schools, Catholic Central Schools, Emmanuel Christian, and area charter schools.

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Home > Blogs > Springfield Schools News and Issues > Archives > 2008 > October > 06 > Entry

Schools take count this week

By Megan Gildow | Monday, October 6, 2008, 11:02 AM

This week is Count Week, the annual set of five days used to determine things like enrollment and funding for local school districts.

Each day this week, officials will count the number of students in school. Any missing students must have an excused absence in order to count in enrollment. Students with unexcused absences can’t be included in the day’s tally.

At the end of the week, the attendance over the last five days will be averaged and that’s the Average Daily Membership of the district. This number is used for all sorts of fun calculations like the district’s funding for the year.

After this week we’ll also know how many students are attending charter schools, choosing to open enroll or using vouchers to attend private schools. And we’ll have the official count for Springfield High School’s enrollment.

See? All sorts of fun.

So be on the lookout for those numbers in the next few weeks.

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