Cheney schools seeing end of year growth spurt

At a time when enrollment tends to decline, full time equivalent student counts in the Cheney School District continue to grow.

In a report presented to the Cheney school board at its regular meeting last Wednesday, Kassidy Probert, the district’s executive director of finance, said enrollment numbers for May were the second highest this school year, coming in at 4,180 full time equivalent students. Normally, the enrollment trend at this point in the school year is more down than up.

“In the last two months we’ve actually grown,” Probert said.

Full-time equivalent numbers have averaged 4,173 s...