Students attended their first day of class for the 2010-2011 school year on Thursday, Aug. 12. All principals report a great start to the fall semester.

“So far everything’s going very smoothly,” said Macon County High School Principal Stephanie Meador. “We’ve managed to get everyone seated in their classes. We have classrooms for all teachers, although we do have some sharing classrooms during planning periods, and we have some floating teachers.”

Portable classrooms had to be placed at some schools to make room for an influx of students. MCHS’s enrollment was up about 96 students from 880 students last year to 976 students this year.

Although Westside Elementary School’s numbers were only up about 20 students overall, with a total enrollment of 325, Principal David Flynn said that most of the increase in enrollment was in the kindergarten and fourth grade classes. As of Thursday, he had about 23 students apiece in his kindergarten classes, and one fourth grade class had 41 students, which is above the number the state allows.

“We would like for the classes to be 15, 16, 17 in kindergarten,” he said. “They need to be under 20.

“All the other grades are really stable, though.

“It happens every year. There’s always a grade level that has a big spike in enrollment, and you never can tell which one it will be.”

Some schools are showing stable enrollment or, even, a decrease.

Central Elementary’s enrollment currently stands at 360, which is down from last year according to Principal Dawn Thompson.

“We still have some no shows, but not many,” she said.

Lafayette Elementary School’s Principal Terry Marsh also said that he has about ten fewer students than last year and that the start of the year is going really well.

“We’ve got a good start for the school year. We’re glad about that he said.”

Current enrollment for other schools is: Fairlane-423, Red Boiling Springs High School-331, Red Boiling Springs Elementary-370, Macon County Junior High-709.