Approximately 8,230 students will attend Arcadia schools during the 1980-81 school year. This is 432 fewer students than at the close of schools in June. There will be 30 fewer teachers.
Arcadia schools fared very will on the Performance Report for California schools, grade 8, according to a report received by the Arcadia Board of Education. All 3 Arcadia junior high schools meet or exceed all statewide targets.
Enrollment in Arcadia public schools has declined steadily for the past five years and the schools are destined to continue losing students for at least the next years. This has already necessitated the closing of two elementary schools and elimination of numerous teachers.
The school board has begun studying the proposed $17.4 million budget. It does not include salary increases. The budget includes all eight elementary schools. Depending on the election, two schools may be closed.
All of Arcadia's six elementary and each of its three junior high schools were identified as high-performing schools in the latest California Assessment Program.
Petitions are being circulated that are aimed at thwarting the possible closure of two elementary schools. The savings would amount to only .7% of an $18 million school budget - not enough to justify closing the schools, according to the parents of students at Bonita Park and Baldwin Stocker.
Preliminary enrollment projections for Arcadia public schools for the 1989-90 school year are up by 149 students. Article lists figures for each school.
Souders expects to retire after his two-year interim contract as superintendent expires. Souders has been with the Arcadia schools since 1955. He discusses problems facing the schools.
Arcadia teachers began picketing their schools to protest what they feel is lack of progress in contract negotiations with the Arcadia Unified School District.
Bruce Polay is the Arcadia High School orchestra conductor and the district's representative to the elementary schools for their part in the instrumental program. Biographical notes included.
Arcadia High School is addressing the concerns expressed in the accreditation report from the Western Association of Schools & Colleges. The WASC recently gave the school maximum 6 years accreditation.
Enrollment in Arcadia schools, for the 8th school month declined compared to the same month last year. Enrollment overall, slipped from 7,553 to 7,419.
Four administrators from Taiwan's Ming Tao High School visited the Arcadia High School on November 3 as part of their tour of American schools. They praised the school's independent students, lack of fences and extensive computer system.
The last year has been an average year in regard to vandalism in Arcadia schools. There were no major problems. The article discusses school vandalism in Arcadia and nearby communities.
Among the many maintenance projects scheduled for the schools during the summer is a project to relocate the District's central library from the Administration Building to Holly Avenue Elementary School.