School Enrollment
Experts point to factors like surges in private and homeschool options and general population decreases. The losses come with big implications for Memphis-Shelby County Schools’ budget and impending school closures.
Charter school leaders are planning to rally on Thursday, less than two months before the mayoral election. Zohran Mamdani, the frontrunner, has criticized the sector.
A former Queens COVID testing site is now a $178 million state-of-the-art campus for high schools focused on health care, film, and tech, as well as a special education school.
New York City schools face major policy changes from class size caps to a statewide cellphone ban and a pivotal mayoral election that could reshape the system midyear.
The district increased canvassing and held more events this summer. It is also focused on improving parent engagement.
With some Memphis schools 'falling apart,' leaders of a new facilities committee say school closures will be a part of a new building plan to address long-term issues in the district.
Some families cited a lack of affordable housing. Others were searching for better schools.
This year, charter schools are serving about 15% of public school students in Colorado.
Jeffco would close the school for a year while it works to set up a new high school that focuses on career education. What that looks like is still to be determined.
The university intends to redouble its efforts to attract adult learners.
The requests are notable because the Education Department has so far been reluctant to consider enrollment caps at overcrowded schools as a means of reducing class sizes.
Many school waitlists are shrinking.
The conference marked 20 years since city officials made major reforms that set the admissions system on the path to what families see today.
About 6,000 students in Jeffco lost Medicaid, which had automatically qualified them as at-risk students.
The extension came hours before applications were set to close for the city’s eighth graders, who rank 12 or more top choices from an array of over 400 schools.
The numbers mark the second straight year that enrollment declines have flattened out, a welcome development for the city’s public school system.
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New York City, like other districts across the country, is grappling with a yearslong enrollment decline and a growing number of tiny schools.
The delay comes as this year’s fifth graders will be able to apply widely to middle schools across the city for the first time, instead of largely being limited to their home zone or district.
The city’s notoriously complex high school admissions process opened Tuesday. Middle school kicks off Oct. 9. Families will soon be able to access their random number, or 'lottery' number, in MySchools.