Across the country, public school enrollment has failed to rebound to pre-pandemic levels — and data suggests the decline is ...

In the Orange Unified School District alone, enrollment in the past decade has fallen by about 4,500 students, or 15%.

Public school enrollment for the current school year totaled 5,806,221 students, a decrease of 31,469 or 0.54% from the prior year, according to the California Department of Education.

Enrollment decline and the ‘streetlight effect’ During the pandemic, public school enrollment in grades K through 12 fell by 1.2 million students. These declines were concentrated among ...