The Mid-Prairie School District expects steady enrollment numbers in the next few years judging from this year’s certified enrollment report.

The current certified enrollment numbers show the total of K-12 students decreased by 6.57. However this doesn’t include the number of non-resident students enrolled into the district, which increased by 5.1. Superintendent Mark Schneider says there isn’t a drastic change from last year’s enrollment figures, “When you look at it that we have three students less that are open enrolling out, that means that’s money that we keep instead of sending it to another school district. And then when you look at the increase of open enrollment in which was five students, when you add those two together you basically, as far as the budget’s concerned, we’re basically in the same place we were last year.”

Each student accounts for the amount of funding the state places in a district’s general fund. Schneider says it would be nice to see an increase in the number of residential students, but the district is holding its own considering the changes it saw with the transition of three elementary schools this year.