More Students in Classrooms Than Expected

The Westport School District has 137 more students in its classrooms this fall than originally expected, according to a school report.

The Board of Education will discuss an enrollment report during its meeting at 8 p.m. Monday in Bedford Middle School’s cafeteria.

In a memo to the school board, Schools Superintendent Elliott Landon reports there are 60 more students than expected in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade.

There are 54 more students at the two middle schools and 23 more at Staples High School, according to his letter.

Landon did not state in his letter how he intends to remedy the situation.

He also states in his letter concerns about the kindergarten class sizes at Saugatuck Elementary School, which are at about 22 students per class.

If the class size should stay that size by the end of September, he wrote, school officials would add paraprofessional help to those classes.