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I'd be willing to bet 75% of that increase was because of added PK spots during that 10 years.  I am very skeptical of significant increases in the percentage of middle/high school population actually attending DCPS/charter schools.
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The school age population of the city has increased significantly in the past ten years and is forecasted to continue to increase. According to the Census Bureau the under-18 population of the city was 101,097 in 2010,   120,567 in 2016 and projected to be 149,646 in 2020.  Basically every demographic projection tells the same story, tens of thousands of new kids in the next few years, although the details differ.  Except for DCPS, which continues to insist that the population is stable and any growth in enrollment is a temporary bubble.

Since 2007, total public school enrollment in DC has increased by 32%. But DC really has three public school systems: the public charter schools, the DCPS schools that feed Wilson, and the rest of DCPS.

This table summarizes the changes in the last ten years:
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                              SY 2007-08     SY 2017-18   Change   %change
DCPS Total                      49,422           47,982    -1,440        -3%
Public Charter Schools       19,73           43,340   23,607         120%
Total public                     69,155           91,322   22,167          32%

Wilson Feeder                   6,851             9,770      2,919        43%
DCPS non-Wilson Feeder  42,571           38,212     -4,359       -10%

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While DCPS is still insisting that the population isn't growing, last spring the public charter school board approved eight new charters with 4,000 seats.

I am indebted to Matt Frumin for these numbers and for pointing out what's happening. [/quote]

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