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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The MCPS enrollment figures did drop, so not sure why anyone argues about that?  The other person cited a SY 2010-11 figure of 144,000?  And in 2019 it was 165,267, but then in Sep 7, 2020 dropped to 162,656 and the official Fall 2020 dropped again to 160,564 Students.
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mcps-enrollment-down-more-than-2000-students-through-first-week-of-school/

The answer about the class size issue is "it depends."  Over half are over-utilized and 19 schools are under-utilized (meaning enrollment numbers are below 80% of the school’s program capacity).  This report explains it well:
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/publicinfo/Boundary_Analysis/interim-report/01_Introduction.pdf

But I don't think that utilization is the big story here.  My question is about who got bigger slices of pie.  What's interesting is that some schools lined up for capital improvement are officially under capacity (Poolesville, for example) and some that are crumbling (Ex. Wootton) are kicked to the curb.  Ex. Poolesville is way out in the middle of nowhere, is currently underutilized, yet is increasing its seat capacity while Watkins Mill, Springbrook, Magruder, BCC are all 300 over utilization according to this document:
https://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/Archive_MP20_EntireBook.pdf

Why?  No idea.[/quote]

So they've gone up like 30% over the past decade but dropped briefly during a pandemic? Umm okay - sounds like your arguing semantics to confuse people into buying into a false narrative here.[/quote]

The trend over the past couple of years is decreasing enrollment. People have lost faith in MCPS. What is your source to show enrollment will be going up?[/quote]

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