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school year, the district relocated 30 students from Homestead High School to Monta Vista High School through an application and plans to repeat this for the next four years. Said Clark, “We’re probably going to try to keep transferring kids to keep the schools balanced and keep them in the same enrollment band where they can offer all the courses that we feel they should offer.”

CHS faced different issues with the predicted enrollment decline. At the start of the school year, CHS experi - enced class overcrowding — courses above or over capacity — and students were given alternate classes. For the 2022-2023 school year, 338 sections — single class periods — were allocated to CHS. District-assigned section quantities are determined by a demographer that provides anticipated enrollments.

“We were projected to have about 100 students drop from the year before this year. So we were staffed for that number of students, so about 100 fewer than we had the year be- fore. However, we had 36 more students than expected, and so that’s what caused some of the overcrowding in some places or needing to open a second section,” said Tomberlain.

CHS and Lynbrook experienced a shortage of teachers due to the overprediction of the decline.

“There were [staff] that left that didn’t get replaced or we have some people that are on split sites,” said Tomberlain. “For example, Mr. [Norman] Tsai is teaching part-time here and part-time at Lynbrook to accommodate the needs of both sites.”

Through such strategies like split sites for teachers and transfer opportunities for students, Clark, Tomberlain and other FUHSD administrators are working to combat the enrollment decline and keep each campus running smoothly