Last week, we blogged about the closure of another North Country school, in Saranac Lake.\u00a0 Declining enrollment is a problem across the region, as the population ages.<\/p>\n
But the Indian River district is booming, thanks in large measure to growth at Fort Drum.\u00a0 This from the Watertown DailyTimes:<\/a><\/p>\n The district’s population is growing, and officials project that the population will continue to grow into the 2011-12 school year. The district’s current enrollment is 4,200 students.<\/p>\n Based on the current student population and construction on and around Fort Drum, the projected enrollment for next school year is 4,488 students.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n To put it in context, that growth<\/em> is larger than some entire school districts in the region.\u00a0\u00a0 According to the newspaper, the district may add as many as 36 staff positions next year.\u00a0 Read the full article here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week, we blogged about the closure of another North Country school, in Saranac Lake.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3529,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions\/3529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}