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Florida School Enrollment Grows at
Slowest Rate Since the Great Recession

December 26, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Florida has about 17,000 fewer students in its kindergarten-to-high school system than lawmakers anticipated this year, a new report shows.


The state budget, passed during the 2018 legislative session, included funding for 2.848 million K-12 students in the 2018-2019 academic year. But a report released Wednesday by the Legislature’s Office of Demographic and Economic Research included a revised forecast, showing 17,142 fewer students enrolled than expected in the 67 school districts, for a total of 2.831 million.

“Most of the revision is due to less than expected net in-migration to the public school system, combined with fewer than expected hurricane-affected students remaining in 2018-19 from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands,” according to the report, which is based on a meeting of state analysts last week.

The report said about half of the students who enrolled in Florida schools in the 2017-2018 academic year because of hurricane damage in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are expected to remain this year and in the next few years.

The report said there was “no supporting data” to make any revisions related to Hurricane Michael, which struck the Florida Panhandle in October. The report makes the assumption that if students were displaced from their storm-damaged schools, they remained in-state and would not impact the overall calculation.

The revised forecast means school enrollment is only projected to grow by 7,955 students this year, or 0.28 percent over the prior year. It is the smallest annual increase since the 2008-2009 academic year, when Florida schools were losing students because of the impact of the economic recession.

The K-12 enrollment is expected to grow by 11,845 students during the 2019-2020 school year, or a 0.42 percent increase over this year. That increased enrollment will have to be accommodated when lawmakers pass a new state budget in the spring.

In the longer term, the K-12 enrollment annual growth rate is projected to remain below 1 percent through 2023-2024, according to the report. A peak of more than 23,000 new students, or a 0.81 percent increase, is projected in the 2021-2022 school year.

The report notes the revised calculation is not part of a formal enrollment projection included in the Florida Education Finance Program, which distributes funding to the 67 school districts. Another enrollment calculation will be made in the spring to create the basis for the funding formula in the 2019-2020 budget year.

The K-12 enrollment report includes some pre-school students with disabilities and some pre-school students whose parents are in the Teenage Parent Program. But the bulk of pre-school students enrolled in the state’s voluntary pre-kindergarten program are included in a separate calculation.

–Lloyd Dunkelberger, News Service of Florida

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  1. Clara says

    December 26, 2018 at 7:48 pm

    The aging population is a possible factor, with fewer younger people having school aged children?

    Reply
  2. The original woody says

    December 27, 2018 at 9:26 am

    And that’s a bad thing?

    Reply
  3. KathieLee4 says

    December 27, 2018 at 1:54 pm

    It’s no big surprise , no high paying jobs !!!! People want to know when their children graduate they will have a job …

    Reply
  4. Pogo says

    December 27, 2018 at 4:22 pm

    @Who can afford children

    when so many of the old Republicans who don’t give a damn about kids, the future of the planet, etc, elect reptiles like trump and his ilk?

    Furthermore:

    Everyone Is Missing A Key Reason The U.S. Birth Rate Is Declining
    In the U.S., women are essentially punished for having kids.

    By Emily Peck

    “…One New York Times article said “social factors” explained the decline; women were putting off childbirth in favor of their careers, and an opinion piece on Friday blamed the patriarchy. Bloomberg said economic factors were the culprit. Conservatives blamed social media and pornography, claiming everyone is just having less sex. Fox News personality Tucker Carlson twisted his argument until he somehow pinpointed male immigrants as the culprit.

    But all of these stories ignore a basic reality: Most women in the U.S., even before they get pregnant, know how little social support exists for them as mothers…”

    Link to full article
    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/key-reason-birth-rate-declining_us_5b0725cfe4b0568a88097feb

    Reply
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