But they have grown by two-thirds in five years, and are one of the most important sources of new students in a system lagging far below historic enrollment peaks.
By 1921, the academy had reached its peak enrollment of three hundred, doubling its previous enrollment record as a college.
The number of international students exceeded the past peak enrollment year, 2002-3, by 14.5percentt.
At Taft, 1,018 students were discharged in 2000-1 -- fully 40percentt of its peak enrollment of 2,493.
Teri Perine, the attendance coordinator, said enrollment reached its peak in 2005, with 3,000 students, up from 2,500 in 2002.
Law school enrollment reached a peak in 2010, as many students fled a troubled economy to the schools' safe harbor.
Organizations like the National Association for Service and Conservation Corps continue the group's legacy (although its roughly 20,000 enlistees don't match its predecessor's peak enrollment of half a million a year).
That diocese, which includes Brooklyn and Queens, has lost 20,000 students and closed more than 50 schools — nearly half of its elementary school system — in the last 12 years, reflecting a nationwide decline in Catholic school enrollment, from a peak of 5.2 million in the 1960s to about 2 million today.
As the spring semester wound down, she was plotting how to get enrollment beyond its peak of 18,000 in 2011.
"When you looked at the profits during the peak enrollment period of 2008-2010, they didn't save revenue for a rainy day," said Baylor, the former Senate investigator.
