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Feb
08
I dig in to school enrollment for 2023-24
My Substack piece this week is about the 2023-24 Iowa school enrollment numbers, with a map and two graphics. One of those graphics looks at Waterloo’s stagnant enrollment vs. Waukee’s astronomical growth. The Des Moines Register, in its evaluation of … Continue reading
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Feb
24
School enrollment analysis, 2020-21
The first takeaway from the 2020-21 certified enrollment list is the most obvious: There were big drops across the board. Growing districts that had not seen decreases in years if not the century to date (Ankeny!) lost kids. There were … Continue reading
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Feb
21
2019-20 enrollment update
Iowa’s school districts start enrollment in the 2020s the same way as previous decades — with some of the rich getting richer and many of the poor getting poorer. Total Iowa public school certified enrollment, rounded, is palindromic: 490,094. About … Continue reading
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Feb
19
Enrollment analysis 2018-19: The trends continue
When the Iowa Department of Education released enrollment numbers for the 2018-19 school year, it announced: “For the eighth year in a row, the number of students attending Iowa’s public schools increased.” Strictly speaking, that’s true. But as long-time blog … Continue reading
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Feb
09
Enrollment data shows more of the same
The 2017-18 public school certified enrollment tables are on the Iowa Department of Education’s website, but currently only accessible via magic. Fortunately, in this case, I have a magician’s touch. There are no big surprises, but a few small ones, likely … Continue reading
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Jan
27
Waukee added Gladbrook-Reinbeck’s entire enrollment
For the first time in the modern era of Iowa schools, no public district has a certified enrollment under 100. There’s no margin of error on that statistic for 2016 — Diagonal clocks in at exactly 100, with a dozen … Continue reading
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Jun
30
Map of Iowa school enrollment changes, 2001-2015
I have created a color-coded map of Iowa that shows changes in certified enrollment between 2001-02 and 2015-16. Certified enrollment is not a direct correlation with head count, because of certain formulas, but it’s the number used for all state … Continue reading
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Jun
29
Iowa’s largest enrollment gainers, 2001-2015
Statewide student enrollment over the past decade and a half tells a different story than a district-by-district breakdown: Rural areas continue to be drained of students while the gains are concentrated in the suburbs. By the raw certified enrollment total, … Continue reading
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Jun
28
Smallest districts of 1996 by enrollment — where are they now?
I have a map of the state of Iowa’s school districts as they were in the 1996-97 school year. As with any district map, it doesn’t reflect what sharing arrangements were at the time, but counting up the numbers then … Continue reading
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Mar
23
Open enrollment will deal big hit to MMCRU
When Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn and Remsen-Union go into whole-grade sharing next year, the combined districts will lose $450,000 in state funding because dozens of students are open-enrolling out, reports the Sioux City Journal. Distance could be a factor in the exodus, because … Continue reading
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