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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The monthly membership reports go back to 2006-07.  County-wide the number of high school students this fall is the largest it's been at any time since the fall of 2006.  The number of middle-school students continued to decline this year and is about the same number as a decade ago.   The number of elementary school students is up this fall, but still well below pre-Covid levels and closer to the levels back in 2009 and 2010.  Guess we'll see if that translates into lower numbers of high school students in the coming years - it seems like the trends are very lumpy with some schools continuing to see enrollment increases and others flat or declining. [/quote]

But we need to fix this now!  Just because the number of middle school students and elementary school students has declined doesn't mean that high schools aren't overenrolled right now!  [/quote]

It’s hard to know exactly how the lower MS and ES numbers will translate into future HS enrollments, though, because Covid created so much noise with respect to enrollment trends.  Parents who pulled their kids out for private ES or MS may send them back to public ES. Then there are the kids who arrive in the county and are already high school age.

FCPS has shown a lot of tolerance for severe overcrowding at some of its high schools for a long time, certainly longer than just about any other public school system in the region. [/quote]

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