The student population for the second year of Tuckerton Elementary’s expanded preschool has gone from 55 students last year to 31 this year and only 17 will take in-school instruction, said Superintendent Janet Gangemi during the Aug. 25 Board of Education meeting.

Surveys sent out to parents to find out how many students would participate in the hybrid school year (two days a week in-school instruction and two days virtual instruction) or would stay home and learn online have returned and the…