Declining enrollment in Los Angeles Unified has been an argument made by those battling new campuses that are being funded by district's the massive multi-billion construction program.
... including those debating the proposed "annex" campus to San Pedro High School, also known at South Region High School No. 15. (Pedro High's enrollment has been on the decline, on par with the district.)
Now we've got numbers for this school year. As of Oct. 6 ("Norm Day"), the district's enrollment is as follows:
Elementary Schools.....................297,316
Middle Schools............................132,250
Senior High Schools....................168,915
Continuation High Schools..............3,825
Alternative Ed. & Work Centers......3,638
Special Education Schools.............3,914
Span Schools...............................23,745
Community Day Schools....................932
Opportunity Schools or Centers.....2,516
Independent Charters..................51,087
TOTAL K-12 ENROLLMENT.............688,138
Last year's enrollment was 694,288. So that's a drop of 0.89 percent, or 6,150 students.
That decrease is the smallest year-over-year drop since the district's peak enrollment of 747,009 in 2003. Since then, LAUSD is down 7.9 percent, or 58,871 students.
District demographers say they expect enrollment to begin to rise again some time between 2010 and 2015.
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