The high school is already 374 pupils over capacity and is projected to be 541 over by 2030-31

What happened

A demographic study presented on January 20, 2026 put district enrolment at 6,370.5 and projected it rising to between 6,509 and 6,566 by 2030-31, with 1,062 new housing units expected to add about 195 pupils. Its capacity table shows Livingston High School holding 2,034.5 pupils against a capacity of 1,661, some 373.5 over, and 541 over by the end of the projection. Capacity was also the dominant theme of the superintendent search survey a few weeks earlier: staff named growth and overcrowding as their most frequent concern and parents recorded more than a hundred comments on the strain on buildings. The board's own goals commit it to developing a facility improvement plan and scheduling a facility referendum during the 2026-27 school year, and the district conceded in a strategic plan update that it had missed its own deadline to bring a plan to the community in spring 2025.

Why it matters to families

Overcrowding is what a parent experiences as class size, corridors and lunch waves, and Livingston's own demographer says it gets worse for at least five years. The remedy on the table is a referendum, which means the decision eventually comes to residents.

The evidence

The demographic study's capacity table reads 'Livingston H.S. (9-12) 1,661 2,034.5 -373.5 2,202 -541', and the district's budget goal states it will 'develop a facility improvement plan and schedule a facility referendum during the 2026-2027 school year'.

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