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 "metadata": {
  "town": "Meriden",
  "what": "Full CT EdSight enrollment and FTE staffing history, one request per school year.",
  "generated_by": "Data/fetch_edsight_history.py",
  "generated_utc": "2026-08-25T13:12:50Z",
  "source": {
   "publisher": "Connecticut State Department of Education (EdSight)",
   "enrollment_report": "https://public-edsight.ct.gov/students/enrollment-dashboard",
   "staffing_report": "https://public-edsight.ct.gov/educators/fte-staffing",
   "method": "SAS Stored Process, guest session, one request per school year. The report's Trend view returns only six years; its own year picker offers nineteen individual years, which is what this reads."
  },
  "years_requested": [
   "2007-08",
   "2008-09",
   "2009-10",
   "2010-11",
   "2011-12",
   "2012-13",
   "2013-14",
   "2014-15",
   "2015-16",
   "2016-17",
   "2017-18",
   "2018-19",
   "2019-20",
   "2020-21",
   "2021-22",
   "2022-23",
   "2023-24",
   "2024-25",
   "2025-26"
  ],
  "caveats": [
   "Enrollment is the October 1 count.",
   "FTE staffing is reported by the district that EMPLOYS the staff. A town that sends grades out has those staff counted in the receiving district, not here.",
   "Assignment-category names are the source's own and their wording has changed over nineteen years. They are carried verbatim; grouping them is an editorial decision and is not made in this file.",
   "A year with no row is a gap in the source, recorded under `gaps`, and is not a zero."
  ],
  "sends_grades_out": false,
  "grades_served_by_own_district": [
   "grade_1",
   "grade_10",
   "grade_11",
   "grade_12",
   "grade_2",
   "grade_3",
   "grade_4",
   "grade_5",
   "grade_6",
   "grade_7",
   "grade_8",
   "grade_9",
   "kindergarten",
   "prekindergarten"
  ]
 },
 "town": "Meriden",
 "slug": "meriden",
 "districts": [
  {
   "district": "Meriden School District",
   "role": "own district",
   "organization_code": "0150061",
   "enrollment": {
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     "2007-08",
     "2008-09",
     "2009-10",
     "2010-11",
     "2011-12",
     "2012-13",
     "2013-14",
     "2014-15",
     "2015-16",
     "2016-17",
     "2017-18",
     "2018-19",
     "2019-20",
     "2020-21",
     "2021-22",
     "2022-23",
     "2023-24",
     "2024-25",
     "2025-26"
    ],
    "total_enrollment": {
     "2007-08": 8908,
     "2008-09": 8720,
     "2009-10": 8463,
     "2010-11": 8406,
     "2011-12": 8342,
     "2012-13": 8260,
     "2013-14": 8183,
     "2014-15": 8100,
     "2015-16": 7993,
     "2016-17": 7949,
     "2017-18": 7933,
     "2018-19": 7973,
     "2019-20": 8163,
     "2020-21": 8118,
     "2021-22": 8521,
     "2022-23": 8630,
     "2023-24": 8789,
     "2024-25": 8707,
     "2025-26": 8381
    }
   },
   "fte_staffing": {
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     "2007-08",
     "2008-09",
     "2009-10",
     "2010-11",
     "2011-12",
     "2012-13",
     "2013-14",
     "2014-15",
     "2015-16",
     "2016-17",
     "2017-18",
     "2018-19",
     "2019-20",
     "2020-21",
     "2021-22",
     "2022-23",
     "2023-24",
     "2024-25",
     "2025-26"
    ],
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       "2008-09": 17.0,
       "2009-10": 17.0,
       "2010-11": 16.0,
       "2011-12": 16.0,
       "2012-13": 16.0,
       "2013-14": 18.0,
       "2014-15": 15.0,
       "2015-16": 14.0,
       "2016-17": 15.0,
       "2017-18": 16.0,
       "2018-19": 16.0,
       "2019-20": 14.0,
       "2020-21": 15.0,
       "2021-22": 14.5,
       "2022-23": 14.8,
       "2023-24": 14.8,
       "2024-25": 12.0,
       "2025-26": 12.0
      }
     },
     "Administrators  Coordinators and Department Chairs - School Level": {
      "educator_type": "Certified",
      "fte": {
       "2007-08": 25.0,
       "2008-09": 24.8,
       "2009-10": 25.6,
       "2010-11": 26.2,
       "2011-12": 26.4,
       "2012-13": 25.2,
       "2013-14": 24.0,
       "2014-15": 32.5,
       "2015-16": 31.1,
       "2016-17": 37.5,
       "2017-18": 36.0,
       "2018-19": 35.0,
       "2019-20": 36.4,
       "2020-21": 35.0,
       "2021-22": 36.6,
       "2022-23": 39.5,
       "2023-24": 41.9,
       "2024-25": 47.1,
       "2025-26": 44.4
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     },
     "Counselors  Social Workers  and School Psychologists": {
      "educator_type": "Certified",
      "fte": {
       "2007-08": 37.6,
       "2008-09": 36.6,
       "2009-10": 37.6,
       "2010-11": 37.6,
       "2011-12": 41.6,
       "2012-13": 39.6,
       "2013-14": 42.6,
       "2014-15": 41.6,
       "2015-16": 43.6,
       "2016-17": 43.3,
       "2017-18": 46.9,
       "2018-19": 47.9,
       "2019-20": 46.9,
       "2020-21": 48.9,
       "2021-22": 57.3,
       "2022-23": 57.6,
       "2023-24": 55.6,
       "2024-25": 56.6,
       "2025-26": 55.2
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     },
     "General Education - Paraprofessional Instructional Assistants": {
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       "2008-09": 34.5,
       "2009-10": 25.0,
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       "2014-15": 52.0,
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       "2019-20": 38.0,
       "2020-21": 38.0,
       "2021-22": 39.0,
       "2022-23": 40.0,
       "2023-24": 42.0,
       "2024-25": 26.0,
       "2025-26": 29.0
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       "2022-23": 502.0,
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       "2024-25": 469.2,
       "2025-26": 467.6
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     "Instructional Specialists Who Support Teachers": {
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       "2008-09": 21.0,
       "2009-10": 20.0,
       "2010-11": 22.6,
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       "2021-22": 36.4,
       "2022-23": 34.2,
       "2023-24": 34.7,
       "2024-25": 36.7,
       "2025-26": 37.2
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     "Library/Media - Specialists (Certified)": {
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       "2014-15": 3.0,
       "2015-16": 3.5,
       "2016-17": 3.5,
       "2017-18": 3.5,
       "2018-19": 3.5,
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       "2021-22": 3.5,
       "2022-23": 3.5,
       "2023-24": 3.0,
       "2024-25": 3.0,
       "2025-26": 4.0
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     },
     "Library/Media - Support Staff": {
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       "2025-26": 0.0
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       "2023-24": 562.0,
       "2024-25": 493.0,
       "2025-26": 540.0
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     "School Nurses": {
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       "2008-09": 12.0,
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       "2024-25": 14.0,
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   "gaps": []
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 ]
}