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When Public Schools Disappear


Thousands of Missouri students have left public education. Here's why

An estimated 230,000 students were considered “missing” in fall 2021, meaning demographic changes or increases in private school or ...

St. Louis education leaders react to new enrollment data - STLPR

Public school enrollment is relatively flat this year, compared to last year. But it is still down from recent years, and experts say more ...

Where Have All the Students Gone?

Stanford Economist Thomas Dee explores the reasons for and implications of the post-pandemic enrollment dip in public schools.

What would happen if the US public school system finally collapses?

Therefore, there won't be one collapse. Some of the worst public school systems are already in a state of collapse, and have been for decades.

St. Louis schools face one of the steepest post-pandemic climbs ...

When she enrolled her fourth grader at a St. Louis public school last fall, Krystal Barnett knew she was doing something that has become ...

What's Going On With Public School Enrollment? All the Big ...

During that period, though, public school enrollment increased slightly each year from 2012 to 2019 before dipping dramatically in 2020 when the ...

Is the United States getting close to losing its entire public school ...

It will not go away any time in the next fifty years. The only current proposal that would have any significant impact on public education would ...

American public schools face an existential enrollment crisis - NPR

Enrollment in public schools has decreased by about a million students in the US since the start of the pandemic. Some of those kids are homeschooled now, ...

The U.S. Passed Peak Public School in 2019 - Reason Magazine

Between fall of 2019 and fall of 2030, the National Center for Public Education Statistics (NCES) projected this past February, public school ...

Why did schools lose students after COVID-19? - The Hamilton Project

While in 2022-23 the share of students attending traditional public schools (TPS) increased by roughly 1 percentage point relative to the prior ...

Public school enrollment falling nationwide, data shows - NBC News

The share of children ages 5 to 17 enrolled in public schools fell by almost 4 percentage points from 2012 to 2022, an NBC News analysis of Census Bureau data ...

What's going on with America's public schools? Enrollment drops ...

American public schools lost more than a million students from the fall of 2019 to the fall of 2020, with enrollment falling from 50.8 million to 49.4 million ...

Breaking down enrollment declines in public schools

We showed that the share of school-age children attending traditional brick-and-mortar public schools declined from roughly 84 percent in 2019- ...

Is the U.S. Public School System Collapsing? New ProPublica Report

America's public school system is in crisis. Enrollment has plummeted since the pandemic, with one million families opting for private ...

America's public schools are losing students - Axios

By the numbers: Public schools lost more than a million students from fall 2019 to fall 2020, according to the National Center for Education ...

Where the Kids Went: Nonpublic Schooling and Demographic ...

Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go? Catholic schools have lost students at same rate as public schools during pandemic ...

Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

Over a million kids left public schools during COVID. Hundreds of thousands of them didn't start private school or homeschool.

The Unequal Effects of School Closings - ProPublica

... city's public schools before enrolling in St. John Fisher University ... “Anchors of the community are disappearing.” School districts ...

Public education is facing a crisis of epic proportions

Traditional public schools educate the vast majority of American children, but enrollment has fallen, a worrisome trend that could have lasting ...