VVS Enrollment, Demographic & Capacity Study

This effort is in response to declining enrollment and the Facilities and Strategic Planning Committees’ recommendations to the VVS Board of Education that VVS complete a study of our enrollment, demographics, and building capacity. The VVS Board of Education accepted the recommendation and we proceeded with the EDC Study.

VVS assembled a team of individuals across the schools and VVS community to review and discuss the information to plan for the future of our district. The team reviewed the data and discussed future enrollment projections, school building uses, and grade-level configurations. Community perspective and insights represented an important point of view in the work.

The Team’s roles and responsibilities were as follows:

• To review and discuss the enrollment, demographic, and capacity data analysis and report that was recently presented to the Board of Education.
• To discuss that data and how it might impact the district’s programs, school building uses and grade configurations, staffing, and resource allocation.
• To develop questions for the Board to investigate and request additional relevant information for the team to study and discuss.
• To identify options to address the team’s findings and any benefits, challenges, conflicts, and opportunities for the school and the community associated with each.
• To share the findings and options for consideration with the Board of Education.

The full team met from October 2024 to March 2025. Members also had the option to participate in a subcommittee and/or community cafe. After several community-wide surveys, the team's work culminated with a presentation to the VVS Board of Education. The Board then asked the superintendent to make a recommendation on what direction to take based on the VVS mission, vision, goals, strategic plan, and resource capacity.