(Griswold, Iowa) – The Superintendent of the Griswold Community School District reports their Certified Enrollment and BEDS numbers. Dave Henrichs says Certified Enrollment is the number of students who live in the District, regardless of where they attend school. It’s the one the District will submit to the State. BEDS is the Basic Educational Data Survey, which includes the number of students who attend Griswold, regardless of where they live.

Henrichs says a big reason for the decline in students, has to do with Open Enrollment.

In other matters, the Griswold School Board, Monday evening, were informed they do not have to take action on Board of Directors redistricting, because of a formula that districts use to determine how big a district can become, with regard to the ideal district population. In Griswold’s case, the range is 700 to 850.

There remained questions about whether or not that number is based upon the individual district or a total of all the districts added together.

The Griswold School Board approved the replacement of all existing outside facility lights (not including the athletic field), at a cost of $8,707, after rebates and incentives. The move is expected to pay off in terms of energy savings amounting to $5,000 per year, or a 1.66 year payback. The Board also approved a bid of about $17,000 from Larson Painting out of Council Bluffs, the same company who painted the high school gym,

The Griswold School Board decided not to change the current early retirement policy.

The Board approved the hiring of Carla Wilson as Assistant Girls HS basketball coach, and the resignation of Matt Spanaugle as Assistant HS baseball coach.