Choice transfer report for Colfax

Colfax School District Superintendent Jerry Pugh gave the annual report on choice transfer students to the board Monday night, noting 10 more students than last year chose to attend school outside of the district. The numbers are 82 students choicing out and 25 choicing in.

In 2016, 72 choiced out with 24 in.

“Principals call, principals meet with parents,” Pugh reported on the district's response, of when they hear of a student leaving. “The reasons for that; they're all over the board. I don't have an answer for it.”

Listing reasons cited by parents, who fill out a form to inform the district of a transfer, include place-of-work reasons, keeping students in a district where the family formerly lived, academic reasons, special hardship and other.

“There are a few disgruntled ones in there as well,” Pugh added.

“And those are the only ones you have a potential effect on,” Robert Smith, a board member, commented.