Enrollment falls in Shoreline School District
September numbers show that enrollment in the Shoreline School District fell from about 8,995 full-time-equivalent (FTE) students to about 8,744 FTE students this year, a loss of about 251 students.
Another student count will be done Oct. 1.
District officials anticipated about 8,711 students, meaning that about 33 students more showed up than planned for.
“We were awfully close to right on,” said Marcia Harris, deputy superintendent.
The district closed two elementary schools last year.
This year, elementary enrollments range from 381 on the low end at Briarcrest Elementary to 497 at Meridian Park Elementary, the largest elementary in the district.
Raise school funds through BoxTops
Locals can raise money for the Shoreline School District by participating in the BoxTops For Education program through General Mills.
Clipping box tops from specific products and sending them to a local school earns 10 cents per box top for the school.
A “10 cent Box Tops” coupon appears on participating products, which includes Cheerios, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Ziploc, Kleenex, Hefty and more.
Participating products are listed at http://www.boxtops4education.com/.
Locals can also raise money for the district by shopping online and buying books through the “Box Tops Book Club.”
For details, see the Web site listed above.
Locals can join the Boy Scouts
Boy Scouts Pack 325 has been active for over 60 years and is recruiting first- through fifth-grade boys and their families to join scouts. Call Beth at 206-533-6294 for details or see the troop’s Web site: http://members.doubleknot.com/Pack325.
The group meets from 7-8 p.m. the third Thursday of every month at First Lutheran Richmond Beach church on Eighth Avenue Northwest.
SCC Health students win scholarships
Four of Shoreline Community College’s new second year Health Information Technology students won $1,000 scholarships from the Foundation of Record Education of the American Health Information Management Association. The association awarded 95 scholarships nationwide.
Annmarie Azavedo, Jill Carrier, Rowena Eleazar and Steve VanAnda won the awards. School faculty encouraged the students to apply for the awards.
To learn about the college’s Health Information Technology program, see www.shoreline.edu
/hciprograms or call 206-546-4757 or 206-546-4707.
The college is at 16101 Greenwood Ave. N., just west of Aurora Avenue and north of Seattle city limits.
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