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Michigan public school enrollment stabilizing after pandemic exodus
DATE: February 10, 2023
Michigan’s public school enrollment fell slightly last year, but data suggests the migration to private schools and homeschooling during the pandemic has stabilized. For instance, Michigan had 120,000 public school kindergarten students in the fall before the pandemic, 2019. The following year, when COVID was at its height, there were only 101,000 first-graders. Last fall, when the same group was set to begin third grade, there were still only 101,700.
That mirrors findings by MSU on students from about three dozen Michigan districts, that they were not coming back after having left.
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