Watford City Posts Largest Jump In School Enrollment In History -- Apparently Those Stories Of The End Of The Bakken Boom Were Highly Exaggerated And Premature -- September 17, 2018
"We had to add another section in kindergarten, we have about 191 kindergartners."
"We had to get a bit creative and
move the third graders out of our elementary school, so it's a K-2
building now with a 3-6 building along with a 7-12."
All of this
has been caused by the biggest-ever single year student population
increase in Watford City's history this fall - a jump of almost 300.
"We're looking at about 1830
students right now. We have capacity of about 1900-2000, so with another
good growth year like this year we would definitely have a space
situation."
The district is well down the path to adding another
building - with plans for a new elementary school expected to be
finalized soon. Holen, who is starting his 14th year at the helm of
Watford City's schools, has seen student numbers balloon from 512 in
2008, to the 1830 today.
