08. Support Staff Update

Strategic Priority		Reason for Consideration
Graduates Prepared for Work, Higher Education and Citizenship		Action
Excellent Educators		Information	X
Healthy, Safe and Responsible Students		Discussion
Operations and Support	X

At the March 5 meeting, the board requested a report on the numbers and ratios of student support staff (school nurses, social workers, psychologists, and counselors) for our district. Dr. McDaris will provide an update.

Social Workers (2.8)	Counselors (8)	Psychologists (3)	School Nurses (3)
TCS = 1:1214	BES = 1:564	TCS = 1:1133	TCS = 1:1133
	PFE = 1:509
	RES = 1:315
	TCH = 0.3/134 = 1:227.8
	BMS = 1:522
	RMS = 0.7/253 = 1:328
	DRS = 1:92
	BHS = 1:373
	RHS = 1:327
	Nat’l Recommendation = 1:250
	NC Recommendation = 1:400

PRC-007 Instructional Support Personnel - Certified (State Public School Fund)

Guaranteed funding for salaries and benefits for certified instructional support personnel. Positions in this category include school counselors, social workers, media coordinators, psychologists, speech language pathologists, technology facilitators. The funding shall not be used for administrators, coordinators, supervisors, or directors.

Current state allotment is 16 positions in this area. We have well over 16 such positions so we use other funding sources to cover the rest.

Groups audience:

School Board