Public school enrollment across Ohio fell during the COVID pandemic, accelerating a trend that has occurred over the last two decades.
According to an analysis from the Fordham Institute, an education think tank in Ohio with ties to charter schools, combined enrollment in Ohio’s traditional district and charter schools fell by about 30,000 students last year out of more than 1.7 million students in Ohio’s public schools.
Ohio’s public school enrollment has declined in the last 20 years due to a lower number of births and population shifts, like students moving out of the state. But precautions around the pandemic — from parents objecting to masking, to parents objecting to their kids doing in-person learning — also resulted in parents pulling kids out of school to homeschool or enrolling their kids in private schools.
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