Last month we published a piece diving into the stark reality of enrollment decline. There are nearly 30,000 fewer kids in San Diego County public schools than there were a decade ago. State officials project that over the next 20 years, enrollment at local schools will drop by another 112,000 students. That would wipe out nearly 30 percent of San Diego County’s enrollment.
Educators are so stressed about the phenomenon because it will almost certainly lead to the closure of schools across the county, from Encinitas, where enrollment has dropped by 21 percent, to Alpine, where it has fallen by 15 percent to South Bay Union, where it has plummeted by 37 percent.
There’s also not much educators can do, because the main engines of the drops—declining birth rates and sky-high costs of living—are largely out of their control.
Read more at Voice of San Diego.
