Charles City Schools to Lose Over Half Million Dollars in State Funding Next School Year

The Charles City School District is looking at a drop of over a half million dollars in state education funding for next school year.

Interim Superintendent Dr. Anne Lundquist gave the School Board a report recently outlining the budget shortage due to a decline in this year’s K-12 enrollment.

Lundquist added that enrollment drop has not been the district’s norm in recent years.

Still, Lundquist says Charles City isn’t alone in declining enrollment.

Lundquist cited the shortage of family housing in Charles City as one of the challenges the school district is facing to keep students in the district.