A r c h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

This year .......

Total public and private school enrollment will rise to a record 52.2 million;

Between 1997 and 2007.......

Public high school enrollment is expected to increase by 13 percent, while elementary enrollment is projected to increase by less than one percent;

The number of public high school graduates will increase 18 percent;

About half of the states will have at least a 15 percent increase in the number of public high school graduates, with an 80 percent increase projected for Nevada, 49 percent for Arizona, and 41 percent for Florida;

Largely because of the high school enrollment increase, over 150,000 additional public and private high school teachers will be needed - a 14 percent increase;

Full-time college enrollment is projected to rise by 21 percent.

Beyond 2007.......

Unlike the decline after the previous baby boom, where births dropped down to 3.1 million in the early seventies, the number of births is not projected to fall off, but remain fairly stable at around 4 million. Long-range projections by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, indicate a rising number of births thereafter, rising to 4.2 million in 2010 and 4.6 million in 2020.