Alachua County, state enrollment projections for 2009-10 down
Public school enrollment numbers will continue to dip statewide and in Alachua County during the 2009-10 school year, according to the latest state numbers.
Projections released earlier in June showed Alachua County's enrollment - including charter schools - dropping for the third straight school year.The projected enrollment is 26,900 students - down about 1.5 percent from 27,293 students during the 2008-09 school year. Since the 2006-07 school year, Alachua County's enrollment is down 1,344 students, or almost 5 percent.
Statewide, enrollment numbers have dropped by more than 33,000 from 2005-06 to a projected 2,608,007 students in 2009-10. Where have the students gone? Opinions on that vary.
Stanley K. Smith, program director for population studies at the University of Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research, said that while 2009 population updates are ongoing it's already obvious that "population growth has certainly slowed a great deal" in Florida during recent years.
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