With two full weeks of the school year completed, officials have calculated new enrollment figures for this year, although the figures will not be made official until next month.
According to Superintendent Victoria Kniewel, who reported the figures during the school board’s September 15 meeting, enrollment is at 9,871, a 2 percent increase over last year’s enrollment.
At the elementary level, the district unofficially has 4,278 students, while there are unofficially 5,593 secondary students — which include both middle and high school students.
This past January, officials predicted that the enrollment had begun to stabilize, and that they believed that since they were not expecting any new residential development — other than the 352 residential units approved for the former Akselrad property on Clarksville Road, known as West Windsor Gardens, and the remainder of the single-family Toll Brothers units in West Windsor — coming into either township, the enrollment numbers should begin to level off after this year.
In January, officials reported then that enrollment for the 2008-’09 school year was the first time they had not seen significant increases in the number of students at each school.
After the September 15 meeting, Kniewel could not say how officials feel about the new enrollment numbers, or offer any analysis of them before the official numbers are reported in October, since they are still preliminary.
