Enrollment in the bricks and mortar buildings of the Pleasant Valley School District rebounded this fall since the end of last school year, but is still less than in September 2022.

When school started last fall, there were 4,138 students registered to attend classes in person, according to the enrollment report. As the school year progressed, that number dropped to 3,915 students in June. This September, enrollment did rebound to 4,122 students, just 16 students shy of last year’s number.

“We’re up about 200 students,” Superintendent James Konrad told the school board at the meeting.

Overall, there are more students in the school district this year, just not in the school buildings. The district is up 41 students to 4,993 students, compared to 4,952 students last September.

“We have a significant number of students that have left cyber charter and have come back to brick and mortar,” Konrad said.

According to the district’s enrollment reports, the charter schools - both cyber and bricks and mortar - did have fewer students. There were 343 students enrolled in September 2022, which increased to 386 by the close of the school year, and now, there are 339 students this year.

Pleasant Valley’s Bears Academy is up to 146 students this September, over 127 last September.

Konrad said the school district is still receiving enrollments in kindergarten. There are six more being enrolled. The current kindergarten enrollment is 285 students. Last September, it was 300.

The high school and the elementary school saw the largest gains. The high school gained 10 additional students, and the elementary school is up 20 students over what it was at the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year.

“Numbers are going up and that’s something we want to do,” Konrad told the school board.

Private schools and home schooling are also seeing slight gains. There are 147 students registered at private schools this year over 141 last September. And home schooling went from 91 students last September to 116 this year. The school district does not provide any funding it receives from the state to private schools and home-schools for its students in these programs.

Pleasant Valley also has students listed as attending classes at MCTI, out of district, Pleasant Valley intermediate unit, and APS (Approved Private School). Combined, there are 123 students in these classes, up 11 students from last September. The largest gains were in the intermediate unit and APS.