Saturday, May 30, 2009

End of sports & enrollment babble

Springs sports have come to an end for the Hogo teams. Congratulations if you made it to the playoffs! To the underclassmen, there is always next year. Work hard and get better so I can have something worth writing about and have a site for a district to be proud of. If you're a graduating senior, enjoy college, check back in with us here at HogoOnline and do your best to contribute to your alma-mater by sparing a few bucks and coming back for a few games. You're never too old for high school sports, just ask the 232 message board members who are thirty and older!

Some good and bad news in the Hogo as far as enrollment goes. Only five schools in Region C went up in enrollment since 2007, however four of those schools were in the Hogoheegee.

School, change, 2007 to 2009

Chilhowie +17, 420 to 437
Rural Retreat +8, 339 to 347
George Wythe +5, 468 to 473
Holston +1, 311 to 312

Unfortunately one of the biggest drops in the Region C occurred at Patrick Henry high school while Northwood suffered a mild loss as well.

Patrick Henry -41, 466 to 425
Northwood -12, 341 to 329

Other Region C schools:
Auburn -39, 413 to 384
E.Mont -44, 353 to 309
Floyd -27, 630 to 603
Giles -15, 521 to 506
Glenvar +3, 634 to 637
Radford -37, 476 to 439

Bland -24, 333 to 309
Fort Chiswell -4, 528 to 524
Galax +/-0, 363 to 363
Grayson -27, 657 to 630
Narrows -13, 260 to 247

Bath County -4, 260 to 256
Covington -25, 275 to 250
Craig County -13, 228 to 215
James River -24, 495 to 471
Parry McCluer -13, 341 to 328

Hopefully these numbers will pick back up in the next cycle and our enrollments can compete with the likes of Region B, whose smallest Division 1 school is bigger than all of Region C and D's division 1 schools.

Enjoy your weekend.

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