enrollment plan

Our proposal and budget contains an enrollment estimate of 135 students. It also states that our current plan is to pursue using the back wing of Lundy for classrooms. In its current state the back wing has seven rooms that can be used for classes. Six of these rooms are large enough to accommodate our class size cap of 15 students. The other one is large enough for 5 students. Using this data I’ve come up with the following numbers for next year.

The number of projected students is calculated by taking 70% of the max students. This will allow us to account for not filling up all of the rooms to capacity. The projected number of students for the bonus room is kept at 5 because we are confident we can fill it to capacity.

This gives us a projected number of students for the current layout of the back wing at 68 students and 7 teachers (1 for each room). If I update our current budget with these numbers we have a deficit of $112,687.40. To balance the budget we would have to reduce the teacher salary to $27,000, the administrator salary to $40,000, and remove the aide. If we reach our maximum capacity of 95 students we will be able to keep the proposed salaries and staffing with a surplus of $45,404.95. We need at least 88 students to keep our ideal salaries and the aide.

I’m going to recommend to our board that we initially cap our enrollment at 95 students. This will require us to do minimal interior changes to the building during our first year of operation.