Junior Macie Wolever sits at her new Hastings High desk because she is one of many transfers that came over semester break. One of her main reasons for transferring was for softball.
Ninety six new students transferred to Hastings Senior High in the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year and at semester break 15 more new students arrived.
With all the new students coming, 56 have transferred out of HHS. The amount of kids that transfer in can affect the: sports teams, clubs, and class sizes.
“With the amount of kids that I have heard transferred it hasn’t affected me at all in the classroom,” Mr. Ortegren said.
Depending on the amount of students who are out for sports, class sizes are prone to change.
“We have moved up to play in class A football, but we will opt down and stay in class B,” head football coach Charlie Shoemaker said.
Since coach Shoemaker has made the decision to opt down, that means the football team can not play for a state title. The only title they can win is a district title.
“It’s different in every sport, class size can change based on the number of students who go out for each sport individually,” assistant athletic director Drew Danielson said.
Hastings High school only has two different parking lots, one on the East side of the school and one on the West.
“Well most of the student athlete’s park in the east parking lot because it’s closer to the gym, weight room, and locker rooms so in the mornings it is kinda a race to get a parking spot in the morning,” junior Olivia Ernst said.
One of the classes that had number problems was sports performance. It was a problem because a lot of the students who transferred play sports, so then their counselor would sign them up for that class. The counselors needed another class period, so they added a period one class that students call “Early birds weights.”
“Everybody saw how successful we were last year in football so a lot of the transfers were to join a winning football program. We do tons of off season work to get our players to where they need to be, and many of the transfer students liked that,” Shoemaker said.
