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Abingdon School District Enrollment Up
While most area schools are seeing their enrollments drop, the opposite is happening in the Abingdon School District.

District 217 Superintendent Tami Roskamp told the school board at last night's meeting that the district's sixth-day enrollment is 754 students, 17 more than last year and the highest total since 2004-05. The school district had 787 students that year.

Roskamp tells WGIL part of the reason for the higher enrollment is new students in the school district. "We had several students and families come and visit our schools this summer," Roskamp said. "They actually looked on our website, and looked at our test scores, they just came and talked to us, visited the town, and they did a lot of background-checking before they moved here. So as much as we are seeing fluctuations in house sales, people are looking at the school and making a decision on where to move."

The biggest enrollment increase is in the high school, which has 261 students -- or 24 more than last school year. Hedding school's enrollment of 319 is 10 more than last year, while the middle school's enrollment of 174 is actually down 17 students.

In other business, the school board unanimously approved the district's 2008-09 budget. Roskamp says two accounts have negative ending balances -- O&M and Tort -- but a budget reduction plan is not required, meaning there will be no cuts associated with the budget this year.
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