Compton was unavailable for comment. There has been no reconfiguration. The new high school is slated to open in the fall of 2003. I would say he's urging us in that direction. Moody said he is unsure how consultants' projections on school enrollment were so off.
Predictions are no more than educated guesses.
Some of them pan out and some don't. Many of the new home purchases in the Boyne City area in recent years have been for summer vacation use, with no kids enrolling in local schools in the fall, Moody said. The influence of the nearby Concord Academy-Boyne charter school, and a new Boyne Falls school just a few miles down the highway, have also impacted student numbers, he said. Chipman, however, said the city's increasing prominence as a summer vacation community isn't a new development in the nine months since voters approved the school bond. Moody said the roof repairs at the high school were deemed necessary as a safety issue by school architects.