Alum Rock Union School District became the latest district to announce school closures and consolidations in the wake of a $20 million budget shortfall.
The Alum Rock Union School District became the latest in the Bay Area to turn to school closures to stay financially afloat when the district’s board of education voted earlier this month to close or merge 13 elementary and middle schools in the 2025-26 school year.
California school enrollment dropped by nearly 15,000 students to 5,837,690 students for the 2023-24 school year, marking the seventh consecutive year of statewide declines.in the last 10 years, decreasing more than 8% since 2013, according to a Public Policy Institute of California analysis. Other Bay Area districts turning to school closures and mergers to account for a looming financial crisis include Oakland Unified and San Francisco Unified school districts.
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