This year’s public school enrollment count shows that many districts are starting to gain back students for the first time since the pandemic.
Overall, public school enrollment across Washington has climbed by about 2,000 students this year, a 0.2% increase from last year, according to the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI). Enrollment reached a high in 2019 with 1,146,882 students and dropped to a low of 1,091,343 in the 2021-22 school year. This year, 1,098,997 students are enrolled.
But many districts in the Puget Sound region continue to record student numbers that are well below the enrollment they enjoyed before the pandemic, which has resulted in dire financial binds. In places where enrollment has dipped the most, such as Bainbridge Island, administrators are now grappling with potential school closures.
Superintendent Chris Reykdal noted in his annual update this month that districts are still strapped financially because state funding formulas “immediately drive money away from districts as enrollments go down.”
“That is hard,” Reykdal added. “If you are in a community and they are considering closing your elementary school, it is personal to you, you may have gone to that school, it is very visceral, it is very powerful for you.”
School closings may be inevitable as the school-age population shrinks, not just here but across the country, because the national birthrate has fallen in the last two decades. “Just as we built schools when we were growing, there are times where you have to let go of some older facilities in times of contraction,” Reykdal said.
There are coming for homeschoolers next. The left is going to try to BAN homeschooling ASAP. Be on the lookout for a “HomeSchool FLOYD event”…there WILL be an event eventually of a homeschooler being abused somehow by his or her parents (becuase statitstically, ithere has to be at least some bad homeschool parents) that the left will use against us- the facts of the matter and the truth be damed. They will then use that like they used george floyd- to spin up protest and violence. Just like the fed goaded the Jan 6 people into goin inside the Capitol.
Just like they are currently looking for “trans floyd” The whole point of “drag queen story hour” was to wind up some fool to get anrgy enough to shoot. Luckily, that operation failed (for now). They are also ramping up “immigrant floyd” as we speak- all it is going to take is one dude who is sick and tired of illigals and decides to pull out his rifle to set it off. Be aware of thier communist operations.
Your reaction is their action. The first person to use violence loses. Don’t be that guy.
Nobody wants to go to school in the HOOD !!!!!!!
There you need a Gun Permit to go to school !!!!!!!