Schools across metro Atlanta have been seeing a decline in enrollment since 2020 at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Enrollment is overall going back up across the state, but local districts are still seeing a decline in the number of students in their school systems, mainly due to the pandemic.
Enrollment over the last five years was trending upwards between 2017-2020 across the state and was down during the 2020-2021 school year. Enrollment, however, went back up in the 2021-2022 school year.
“The enrollment drop we experienced during COVID (from the 2019-2020 school year to 2020-2021) was largely concentrated in the early grades, particularly kindergarten – which is not compulsory in Georgia,” a spokesperson from the DOE said.
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