NYC Public Schools enrollment grew for the first time since the 2015-2016 school year, according to data released from Independent Budget Office.
NYC public schools enrollment grew for the first time since the 2015-2016 school year, according to data released on MondayTraditional public school enrollment grew since 2015 – 2016, with 912,096 students in city 3-K through grade 12 classrooms this year.Charter school enrollment in the 2023-2024 school year grew by 6% in the Bronx, 1% in Manhattan, 9.5% in Queens and 9.8% in Staten Island.
his position at the DOE as of Dec. 31 this year. His announcement last week came in the midst of continued chaos at City Hall involving FBI investigations into members of Adams’ inner circle andMeanwhile, IBO data showed that in 2022-2023, public school buildings were only at 87% capacity on average, but 28% of the buildingsThe agency defines a building as overcrowded if its utilization rate exceeds 102.5%.
A spokesperson for the IBO’s education team explained school overcrowding in more detail, dividing total enrollment by capacity. “To determine a building’s utilization rate, the building’s enrollment is divided by its capacity,” The spokesperson said. “The capacity is the number of students a building is designed to serve based on the grades served –whether the space is being used by a high school, elementary school, or middle school– the square footage of rooms, and other considerations detailed in the Enrollment, Capacity, and Utilization Report.
Despite more students this year, which could be due to the arrival of migrant children into NYC, public school enrollment is still lower than it was in 2014-2015, when it was just over 1 million students.
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