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EagleRidge High School near enrollment goal
June 13, 2007
A new charter high school in Klamath Falls has nearly reached its first-year enrollment goal of 100 students.
Ninety-two youngsters have signed up to attend EagleRidge High School beginning this fall.
The enrollment is split almost evenly between freshmen and sophomores. School officials plan to add classes for juniors and seniors in the future.
Monday’s update
EagleRidge director Scott Lewis updated the Klamath Falls City Schools board of directors Monday. The board, acting as the new school’s sponsoring agency, approved some minor contract amendments and a memorandum of understanding.
City schools board member Matt Hurley expressed the board’s support for the charter school.
‘Our students’
“These are our students,” he said. “This is an extension of our programs.”
Oregon charter schools receive funding from the state based on enrollment, just as traditional public schools. Ninety-five percent of the total funding amount goes to the charter school while the sponsoring agency gets the other 5 percent.
Lewis noted the city school board offered to give in-kind services to EagleRidge that total 5 percent of the total budget amount, or $31,600. That includes food services; “school master” services such as compiling student records, expulsions and suspensions; nursing services; transportation for field trips; information technology support; clerical services to manage the school account; and miscellaneous services.
EagleRidge previously was organized as Riverside charter high school with a target opening date of fall 2007. However, funding problems derailed the project. EagleRidge has signed a one-year lease to operate in the former Sacred Heart school. School board member Carol Wendt asked Lewis why that location was chosen over the former Riverside Elementary School. Lewis said the expense for wiring Riverside and making it comply with Americans With Disabilities Act provisions were “cost prohibitive.”
No deal
EagleRidge officials also had discussed a possible home on the Oregon Institute of Technology campus, but a deal couldn’t be closed there. “It came to the point we had to act, for recruiting and for fundraising,” Lewis said.
He said needed changes at Sacred Heart “can be made very inexpensively.” A shift to OIT could occur in the future.
-- STEVE KADEL
A new charter high school in Klamath Falls has nearly reached its first-year enrollment goal of 100 students.
Ninety-two youngsters have signed up to attend EagleRidge High School beginning this fall.
The enrollment is split almost evenly between freshmen and sophomores. School officials plan to add classes for juniors and seniors in the future.
Monday’s update
EagleRidge director Scott Lewis updated the Klamath Falls City Schools board of directors Monday. The board, acting as the new school’s sponsoring agency, approved some minor contract amendments and a memorandum of understanding.
City schools board member Matt Hurley expressed the board’s support for the charter school.
‘Our students’
“These are our students,” he said. “This is an extension of our programs.”
Oregon charter schools receive funding from the state based on enrollment, just as traditional public schools. Ninety-five percent of the total funding amount goes to the charter school while the sponsoring agency gets the other 5 percent.
Lewis noted the city school board offered to give in-kind services to EagleRidge that total 5 percent of the total budget amount, or $31,600. That includes food services; “school master” services such as compiling student records, expulsions and suspensions; nursing services; transportation for field trips; information technology support; clerical services to manage the school account; and miscellaneous services.
EagleRidge previously was organized as Riverside charter high school with a target opening date of fall 2007. However, funding problems derailed the project. EagleRidge has signed a one-year lease to operate in the former Sacred Heart school. School board member Carol Wendt asked Lewis why that location was chosen over the former Riverside Elementary School. Lewis said the expense for wiring Riverside and making it comply with Americans With Disabilities Act provisions were “cost prohibitive.”
No deal
EagleRidge officials also had discussed a possible home on the Oregon Institute of Technology campus, but a deal couldn’t be closed there. “It came to the point we had to act, for recruiting and for fundraising,” Lewis said.
He said needed changes at Sacred Heart “can be made very inexpensively.” A shift to OIT could occur in the future.
-- STEVE KADEL
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