THE WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, A DYSFUNCTIONAL MONEY PIT, DESPITE RENEWING “SCHOOL CHOICE” FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR, CONTINUES ITS TOTAL STUDENT ENROLLMENT SLIDE AND DROPS ANOTHER 130 SINCE LAST YEAR
The WRSD is a dysfunctional money pit run by dishonest ‘Woke’ incompetents. Despite the WRSD Committee renewing ‘School Choice’ for this 2025-2026 fiscal year—encouraging students from neighboring school districts to enroll in the WRSD rather than their home districts—in a blatantly transparent attempt to boost WRSD enrollment numbers and thereby try for more state funding, the WRSD failed abysmally. Its total student enrollment numbers dropped 130 since last fiscal year, from 6557 to 6427.
SEE: https://profiles.doe.mass.edu/profiles/student.aspx?orgcode=07750505&orgtypecode=6
The WRSD’s peak total enrollment of 7493 was reached in Fiscal Year 2010. It has been falling ever since—by more than 1000—or 14.5%.
WHILE WRSD TOTAL STUDENT ENROLLMENT DROPPED 14.5% SINCE FY 2010, THE WRSD BUDGET HAS INCREASED FROM $81.3 MILLION IN FY 2015 TO $129,515,225 THIS FISCAL YEAR 2026, OR A WHOPPING 59.3% IN JUST ELEVEN (11) FISCAL YEARS.
THAT’S AN ABSOLUTE OUTRAGE AND AN OUTRIGHT INSULT TO EVERY SINGLE DISTRICT TAXPAYER.
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION IS WELL AWARE OF THE WRSD’S STUDENT ENROLLMENT SLIDE AND, THEREFORE, HAS LIMITED STATE FUNDING TO THE WRSD ACCORDINGLY.
BUT THE MORONS CONTITUTING THE STERLING FINANCE COMMITTEE CITE THE STATE FREEZE AS A REASON TO BOOST LOCAL WRSD FUNDING PRECIPITOUSLY WHILE WRSD TOTAL STUDENT ENROLLMENT FALLS OFF THE TABLE. THEY ARE ABSOLUTE SPINELESS DOPES.
This year the WRSD is pushing every single District town into Proposition 2 ½ override territory. LET’S WATCH AND SEE HOW STERLING’S FINANCE COMMITTEE AND SELECT BOARD MORONS HANDLE THAT DISASTER, A FISCAL DISASTER YEARS IN THE MAKING DUE TO THEIR GUTLESS INCOMPETENCE.
Stay tuned.
J.G.