Certified enrollment was recently finalized for Iowa public schools, and Adair-Casey/Guthrie Center schools saw various changes for the 2018-2019 school year.

Certified enrollment is an annual report used to calculate the state’s funding to school districts. The Guthrie Center School District certified enrollment shows a decrease of 15.8 students to 431.8 students served overall. However, the number of students enrolled in the district increased by seven, according to the Basic Educational Data Survey, or BEDS. Superintendent Steve Smith explains the increase, “The reason for the plus seven is due to some new open enrollments in and then also with the whole grade sharing with Adair-Casey. Those two things helped give us, rather than having a negative number, a positive number for the actual kids that we have at school.”

The Adair-Casey School District’s certified enrollment showed an inverse from Guthrie Center with an increase of 9.7 to 310 students. BEDS presented a decrease of 18 students to 258 attending the Adair-Casey buildings. Smith said these enrollment figures trend with slight decreases in the districts for the last five years. No budgetary action is expected as a result from the enrollment numbers.