Really puts into perspective what the NBC just did by adding Maumee at 712 students, with classes in the lower ranks making it seem like the 25 year enrollment cycle that has always occurred in Maumee is going to hit again around 2030 and they'll be back up around 850-900 students in their school. Tried saying this way earlier in the thread, but Maumee is one of the most cyclically locked communities in the entire state...with stagnant property values, there is no fiscal incentive for parents of graduates to move out and with no area to develop build, you can't recharge populations by simply building more homes, meaning a lot of the parents of the students in the early 2000s are still around or just now starting to downsize move out as they hit their upper 60s-low 70s and there is no room for young, growing families to move in.
This same thing happened in the 70s to 90s, when the school was down to about 800 in the 70s, up above 1000 in the 80s, then dipped in the early 90s once again to around 800. Not saying the increased enrollment will bring good athletes with it...but you have a lot better odds when you're getting 3 times as many kids as the competition in the door. As a note, Maumee has 728 kids in their K-3 buildings (Fort Miami and Fairfield), with an additional 121 Maumee residents enrolled in K-3 at St. Pats and St. Joes (right about half of those kids will end up at Maumee for middle and high school given past trends) and apparently over 100 parents holding kids out of kindergarten this year due to the risk of Covid-remote teaching. That doesn't even count the fact that the average age of a homeowner in Maumee right now is the highest it has been in 48 years (per the Mayor's Report) and you're looking at a recipe for A LOT of reverting to the mean in short order.
From 1986-2009, Maumee High School had no individual class with fewer than 181 students, last year EVERY class in the current high school was, but this year the freshman class is at almost 200 from what I've been told...what you're looking at is all of the families who built in the final development push (space between Key and Cass by Fairfield) in the late 80's and early 90's downsizing or dying off in the next few years, with lots of younger families with children moving in. I'd imagine that trend for the mid-80s to the late 00s is going to be back at Maumee starting here by the end of this decade.
It's akin to the NLL schools adding Whitmer, which many on here have said isn't going to work out well.