La Conner Schools campaign plans to add Conway students

Conway remains on the La Conner Schools radar.

Faced with recent years of declining student enrollment, the driving force behind state funding of public schools, school district officials are resuming last year’s effort to recruit Conway students to the high school.

Conway, 11 miles southeast of La Conner, has an elementary school whose graduates attend Mount Vernon High School but have the option of Stanwood or La Conner.

“We’ll keep it going,” school board chair Susie Deyo said during board’s Nov. 13 hybrid study session of attempts to market to Conway students and families.

That discussion...