Haines Borough School District Superintendent Michael Byer is projecting an 11 percent drop in enrollment for the coming school year, but told the school board Tuesday an incoming kindergarten class in 2014 could stabilize those numbers.

Combined with an 8 percent drop at the start of the current school year, Byer’s projection, if correct, would amount to a 58-student loss in the course of two years and possible cuts to programs and staffing.

The contrasting…