Enrollment at Haines School hasn’t dropped this year nearly as much as was projected.

The district’s student count, which ended last year at 270, declined by only two students to 268 at the time of the state’s official count in October. In budgeting, the district had projected a drop to 244 students.

At $5,830 per student in state funding for the district, the 24-student increase from projections amounts to an estimated increase in state funding…