Rising enrollment of women in universities has yet to show through in the broader labor force.
Last year voters approved a $14 million project to build an addition to the high school because of rising enrollment.
That means local school boards find themselves trapped amid rising enrollment, double-digit drops in state aid and frozen local taxes.
In Rockland County, St. Peter's School in Haverstraw, now celebrating its 150th anniversary, is scheduled to close despite its rising enrollment.
"Add to that the general cost increases for inflation and rising enrollment that is up by a little more than 1percentt on Long Island, and these figures are quite reasonable," he said.
And Little Village School, a center for developmentally disabled children, which leases part of an elementary school in Bellmore, must move by summer 2001 when rising enrollment in the district will push it out.
In addition to rising enrollment, school districts must also cope with the state's new standards, which by 2003 will require all students to pass five Regents exams to graduate from high school.
Dr. Sandbank said that rising enrollment had led to a space shortage and that the district plans to propose a bond issue this fall for building additions to all schools.
Bob Kerrey, whose eight years as president of the New School have been marked by rising enrollment and faculty expansion but also by criticism and recent student protests, announced on Thursday that he would step down when his contract expires on July 1 , 2011
Even before then, the primary target of school officials and policy makers looking to cut spending, as they continue to grapple with rising enrollment and what may continue to be decreased state revenue, will have to be personnel costs.
