I heard Monett might be going to class 4. Any truth to this? Also heard they didn't have enough to play separate 7th and 8th football. Had to combine those grades into one team. Not a good start if they end up in Class 4. At one time they had a pretty strong youth program, soccer beating out football now days in Monett?
Monett to Class 4?
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A person can "hear" things all they want, but until the enrollment numbers are collected, sorted and divided into classifications and publicly posted later this school year, it's all just unnecessary worry.
Instead of trying to find out why not just go to the games and see for yourself? Youth program is fine in fact at times have more than enough kids usually anywhere from 25-37 per grade. However those numbers don't translate into junior high for some reason, and no it is not because of soccer the junior high does not offer soccer. But yes they fielded both an 7th & 8th grade team this year.
Ever since Squeal moved to Arkansas he's not allowed back in state, so unless Monett plays an Arkansas team in Arkansas he can't find out for himself. Probably why he asked.
Yes the junior high program numbers are down. Head coach is only in his second year he'll figure out how to fix that.
So true. I know there were a bunch of schools that were close in enrollment at the bottom of Class 4 and the top of Class 3 so it wouldn't take many students to be added on to Monett for them to jump.
According to DESE's numbers, Monett's enrollment is now higher than Rogersville's (and Rogersville was already like the third smallest school in Class 4); my money is on Monett moving up and Rogersville moving back down...
Did some math on that Mits and 8 schools dropped football in some form since the last cycle and two school jumped Monett in enrollment and several other stayed ahead of them, so still a chance we stay down.
Mostly because they would likely share a district with Webb City I was curious and did some checking myself. This is of course assuming the data on the DESE site is correct and I'm not missing students being in lumped in as part of a co-op with some other small schools it looks like if if lets say the number of schools dropping out is 5 then Monett could be the smallest Class 4. Any more than that and they certainly look to stay Class 3. This is of course with a pretty low degree of confidence. I don't have numbers on Lutheran South who was 710 last cycle but for this excercise I am going to have them staying at 710 and being the largest C3. This is what I come up with:
^ East (KC) 767
^ Potosi 730
^ Monett 721
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V Lutheran South 710
V Sullivan 703
V KC Center 700
V Miller Career Acad 685
V Logan-Rogersville 681
V Pleasant Hill 677
V Jennings 673
V Mexico 664
Since right now the number looks like it could be closer to 6-8 spots. I think odds are probably are far greater that Monett stays Class 3
I could have missed something but with the current state of how programs are dropping out it is going to take quite a bit for a school to move up a class right now.
If the numbers are correct that is a virtual given. Especially Pleasant Hill.
Frog your numbers are pretty spot on to what I have, I would say it's 50/50 that we move up, the unknown like you said is those schools that may drop to 8-man or co-op. But I think the real question is, not if we move up, but when, when I did some calculation on the DESE numbers going back to 1991 until now, Monett percentage wise has grown more then any other member in the big 8 and that includes CJ, which sort of surprised me.
bullit: 50/50 isnt bad considering a year ago, it looked like a foregone conclusion.
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