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A Back to School Special Report on the Baby Boom Echo: America's Schools Are Overcrowded and Wearing Out -- (September 8, 1998)

Table 5. -- Twenty-five school districts with the largest increases in enrollment: Fall 1985 to fall 1995

School district State Rank Enrollment Enrollment
increase,
1985 to 1995		 Percent
change,
1985 to 1995
1985 1995
New York City New York 1 927,236 1,049,039 121,803 13
Dade County School District Florida 2 236,127 333,817 97,690 41
Broward County School District Florida 3 128,576 208,359 79,783 62
Los Angeles Unified California 4 568,754 647,612 78,858 14
Clark County School District Nevada 5 91,446 166,788 75,342 82

Palm Beach County School District Florida 6 80,256 132,215 51,959 65
Orange County School District Florida 7 82,357 123,165 40,808 50
Gwinnett County School District Georgia 8 47,680 84,555 36,875 77
Guilford County Schools North Carolina 9 23,875 57,211 33,336 140
Hillsborough County School District Florida 10 113,073 143,192 30,119 27

Montgomery County Public Schools Maryland 11 92,880 120,291 27,411 30
Knox County School District Tennessee 12 26,311 52,627 26,316 100
Hawaii Department of Education Hawaii 13 161,764 187,104 25,340 16
Wake County Schools North Carolina 14 57,604 81,438 23,834 41
Cobb County School District Georgia 15 59,390 82,870 23,480 40

Duval County School District Florida 16 101,403 123,910 22,507 22
Fresno Unified California 17 55,499 77,880 22,381 40
Baltimore County Public Schools Maryland 18 80,730 101,564 20,834 26
Elk Grove Unified California 19 16,148 35,936 19,788 123
San Diego City Unified California 20 110,703 130,360 19,657 18

Cypress-Fairbanks Independent Texas 21 31,953 50,817 18,864 59
Prince Georges County Public Schools Maryland 22 103,611 122,415 18,804 18
Brevard County School District Florida 23 46,944 65,621 18,677 40
Fulton County School District Georgia 24 38,082 56,338 18,256 48
Moreno Valley Unified California 25 13,415 31,503 18,088 135

NOTE: Some changes may be affected by school district boundary changes. Selection of districts based on the most recent complete data on all school districts (1995), and the change from 1985.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data survey; and U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, "Survey of Local Government Finances."


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[ Table 4. -- Fifteen states with the largest percent increases in public elementary and secondary enrollment: Fall 1998 to fall 2008 ] [ Table of Contents ] [ Table 6. -- Enrollment growth in selected suburban school districts: Fall 1996 to fall 1998 ]

Last Updated -- September 7, 1998, (pjk)