Thursday, September 13, 2018

Oconee County Schools Added Enough New Students In August To Fill Half Of A K-5 School, Education Board Members Told

***Community Engagement Meeting Announced***

Enrollments at Oconee County Schools increased by 246 students over the last year, marking the fourth straight year that enrollments in the county schools grew by more than 3 percentage points.

Brook Whitmire, chief Human Resources officer for the school system, told the Board of Education on Monday that the growth in enrollments means that the county is adding enough students each year to represent about half of K-5 school.