{"id":16221,"date":"2026-03-18T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16221"},"modified":"2026-03-14T01:26:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:26:53","slug":"a-look-at-statewide-enrollment-tables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/a-look-at-statewide-enrollment-tables\/","title":{"rendered":"A look at statewide enrollment tables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enrollment at public schools in Iowa dropped by the most in four decades, both numerically and percentage wise, and the Iowa Department of Education seriously underplayed it. <a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/downward-trend-in-enrollment-obscures\">There was so much to write about from that angle<\/a>, in fact, that I concentrated on it for a full story and saved district-specific enrollment notes for later.<\/p>\n<p>After the story was published, files on the Iowa DOE&#8217;s website were modified to eliminate an error: Choice Charter School is in the town of Union, not the Union school district. I get results!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/downward-trend-in-enrollment-obscures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16222\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/substack_enrollment2526.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/substack_enrollment2526.jpg 600w, https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/substack_enrollment2526-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/substack_enrollment2526-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enrollment at public schools in Iowa dropped by the most in four decades, both numerically and percentage wise, and the Iowa Department of Education seriously underplayed it. There was so much to write about from that angle, in fact, that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/a-look-at-statewide-enrollment-tables\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16229,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16221\/revisions\/16229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}