DPI numbers are interesting to look at. I went to check them when someone on the three-class thread mentioned Jamestown approaching the middle division with future enrollments.
First, on that: Yes, the current 5th-8th grade at Jamestown is at 631. The current 4th-7th grade is at 604. 3rd-6th 616, 2nd-5th 618, 1st-4th 604, and K-3rd 601. Those numbers are below the 650 threshold.
That being said, Jamestown has a private school that would feed into the number when they reach the classification age. The current information is that they have 190 students enrolled K-6, about 27 a class. So, it is very unlikely Jamestown would drop below 650 at any time for the next 10 years.
Then I started looking at the class sizes in all the schools at the kindergarden level. I thought I'd draw up a little plan to pivot to. I'm sure everyone will hate it.
Just the kindergarden class, AAA, 600 Kindergardeners in the district (example: West Fargo has the largest Kindergarden class in the state, with 1103 kindergardeners. They would, of course, eventually be spread around all three high schools) and up, all schools in that district are in this class:
Bismarck
Bismarck Century
Bismarck Legacy
West Fargo
West Fargo Sheyenne
West Fargo Horace
Fargo South
Fargo North
Fargo Davies
Minot
Minot North
Fargo Shanley---opt up
Bismarck St. Marys---opt up
80-499 kindergardeners
Williston
Mandan
Devils Lake
Wahpeton
Belcourt
Dickinson
Jamestown
Watford City
Grand Forks Central
Grand Forks Red River
45-79 kindergardeners (if you're in a AAA district, you auto opt up to this level)
Valley City
Kindred
Central Cass
Northern Cass
Killdeer
Carrington
Thompson
Beulah
Des Lacs-Burlington
Nedrose
New Town
Stanley
Grafton
Tioga
Four Winds-Minneauwaken
Langdon Area-Munich
Shiloh
Trinity
Ryan
Our Redeemers
Oak Grove
44 kindergardeners and below: the rest.
There are some I left out, as I'm almost positive an active co-op would dissolve if this were in place (Hillsboro-CV, Wynd-Lidg-Hank). Lisbon is probably up when it gets its two kindergardeners that go to Fort Ranson, which moves their number from 44 to 46. This won't be complete.
What's interesting to me: If you drew that number at 44 and below are B, you'd see so many co-ops fall apart and field their own teams again, at least I think you would, that you'd think we had moved the clock back 20 years.