Other shore resorts have faced shrinking school enrollments, but the decline has been especially sharp, and the proposed solution especially drastic, here in this town with 7,000 dwelling units, a summer-weekend population of 40,000, a year-round population of perhaps 2,400 and an eighth-grade graduating class of seven.
A report issued this week by a teacher recruitment organization estimated the cost of the so-called teacher reserve pool — nearly 1,400 educators who have lost their classroom assignments because of shrinking enrollment, school closings or the elimination of programs — at $74 million this year.
As the demolition of low-cost housing began to gather momentum in the 1990's, young families with children were forced to move elsewhere and school enrollment shrank.
Already, school enrollment has shrunk so much that the high school had to field a coed basketball team this year.
Yet Baltimore is often defined by its long-standing troubles, whether the evidence is a population that has shrunk by 40,000 since 2000; public school enrollment that last year reached its lowest level in a decade; or a homicide count that has exceeded 300 in each of the past four years.
Rural school enrollment in Virginia has shrunk 7percentt since 2008-2009, whilenrollmentnt statewide has grown 5percentt, according to the Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis, a Richmond think tank.
In Pittsburgh, public school enrollment plummeted from about 70,000 two decades ago to about 30,000 and continues shrinking by about 1,000 a year.
First stop: school enrollment.
The local school enrollment is 23.
High school enrollment was about 1,650.
Holding down school enrollment and thus taxes.
