Enrollment for the Fayette School District is up from last year by nearly 60 students. The district has 658 students enrolled for the 2020-21 school year, up from 616 a year ago.

Daly Elementary School saw an increase of 22 students for a total of 290, with an additional 39 students in pre-kindergarten. Middle school enrollment is down only five students from last year. Of the 133 enrolled this school year, nine have opted for online learning.

A strong freshman class has driven up high school enrollment from 177 last year to 196 for the current school year. “The incoming freshman class is roughly 20 students larger than the graduating class of 2020,” high school principal Patrick Tray explained in his August report to the district’s Board of Education. “We have also enrolled several new kids. We are anticipating that number to go down some when we get transfer requests in the next couple of weeks. But, we do not expect a precipitous drop.”