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Published February 23, 2008 03:42 pm - A new after-school program will be available to Austin-Tracy Elementary students next year, thanks to a federally funded grant. Grant may help boost numbers at Austin-Tracy By GINA KINSLOW Glasgow Daily Times A new after-school program will be available to Austin-Tracy Elementary students next year, thanks to a federally funded grant.
School officials applied for the grant looking for a way to expand after-school offerings and to increase enrollment. The elementary school was one of 21 schools statewide to receive a $327,000 21st Century Learning Center grant. “We’re just real excited about it,” said Scott Harper, principal. “It would be something that is unique and different for our school and it might be something to entice students to come to our school,” he said. Austin-Tracy has been experiencing a decline in enrollment recently, which Harper said is typical of most elementary schools in the Barren County School System. “When we look across the district, I think all the schools would say they have less kindergartners,” he said. The K-6 school has been showing a slight decline in enrollment for the last three years. In 2005-06, the school’s enrollment was 279; 2006-07, 272; and 2007-08, 243, according to Bo Matthews, director of pupil personnel for the school district. Austin-Tracy experienced a drop in enrollment from 2006-07 to 2007-08 because its sixth-grade class that moved on to Barren County Middle School was larger than its incoming kindergarten class, Matthews said. Through the program, Harper is hoping to offer homework help, recreational activities, such as archery, and organized team play. “We’re hoping to run all of our after-school activities through this,” he said. Harper said he and his staff are still ironing out the details. The grant will fund the program for three years. For the first year the school will receive $145,000; $109,000 the second year; and $73,000 the third year, according to Holly Trowbridge, district grant writer. It will also enable the school to bus students home in the afternoons and will cover the cost to hire a program coordinator. Austin-Tracy will be partnering with the Barren River State Park in offering student activities. 
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