“My entire career was in education for 43 years,” Faust said. “I started as a teacher and coach and was a building-level administrator, then ended up the last 12 years of my career as the director of business for 383. Education was a good career for me, it was good to me over the years and now I’m at a point in my life where I want to give back and stay involved.”

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“Since our Sept. 20 count, we’ve had 272 new enrollments, 219 exits, 51 transfers within the district,” Downs said. “And then we approved 39 mid-year graduates. Our overall increase is 17 students. However, if you factor in the mid-year graduates and so on and so forth, we’re continuing to thrive. Students are continuing to come into our area and be a great part of our school district.”

Elementary schools had 3,040 students, middle schools had 1,483 students, and Manhattan High School had 2,044 students.

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