Growing Pains

(August 21, 2000)

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Table of Contents

• Highlights
• Growing Pains: The Challenge of Overcrowded Schools Is Here To Stay
  • The Echo Comes of Age
  • Diversity Will Dominate
  • Challenges in the Cities
  • No Escape in the Suburbs
  • Meeting the Challenges of the Coming Century
• Figure 1. -- Annual number of births, with projections: 1908 to 2028
• Figure 2. -- Projected number of school-age children, 5 to 17 years old: 2000 to 2100
• Figure 3. -- Enrollment in public and private elementary and secondary schools: Fall 1970 to fall 2010
• Figure 4. -- Number of 3- to 5-year-olds and preprimary enrollment: 1990 to 2010
• Figure 5. -- Increase in number of students enrolled in public and private schools, by level: Fall 1990 to fall 2000
• Table 1. -- Enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools, by grade: Fall 1983 to fall 2010
• Figure 6. -- Percent change in public elementary and secondary school enrollment, by state: Fall 1990 to 2010
• Table 2. -- Enrollment in public and private elementary and secondary schools, by region and state: Fall 1990, 2000, 2005, and 2010
• Table 3. -- Fifteen states with the largest enrollment increases in public elementary and secondary schools: Fall 2000 to fall 2010
• Table 4. -- Fifteen states with the largest percent increases in public elementary and secondary school enrollment: Fall 2000 to fall 2010
• Table 5. -- Twenty-five school districts with the largest increases in enrollment: Fall 1988 to fall 1998
• Table 6. -- Fifty urban area enrolling the largest number of elementary and secondary school students: 1990 and 1998
• Figure 7. -- Enrollment in grades 9 to 12 in public schools, by region: Fall 1990, 2000, and 2010
• Figure 8. -- Percent change in enrollment in grades 9 to 12 in public schools, by state: Fall 1990 to 2010
• Table 7. -- Enrollment in grades 9 to 12 in public and private schools, by region and state: Fall 1990, 2000, 2005, and 2010
• Table 8. -- Fifteen states with the largest enrollment increases in grades 9 to 12 in public schools:
• Table 9. -- Sixteen states with the largest percent increases in enrollment in grades 9 to 12 in public schools: Fall 200 to fall 2010
• Figure 9. -- Percent change in number of public high school graduates, by state: 1999-2000 to 2009-10
• Table 10. -- Graduates of public and private high schools, by region and state: 1989-90, 1999-2000, 2004-05, and 2009-10
• Figure 10. -- Enrollment in public and private 2-year and 4-year colleges, by attendance status: Fall 1985 to fall 2010
• Table 11. -- Total enrollment in public and private 2-year and 4-year colleges, by sex, and attendance status: Fall 1979 to fall 2010
• Figure 11. -- Estimated age distribution of full-time-equivalent public school teachers: 1998-99
• General Projection Methodology

Previous Reports

• A Back to School Special Report on the Baby Boom Echo: No End in Site (August 19, 1999)
• America's Schools Are Overcrowded and Wearing Out (September 7,1998)
• A Back to School Special Report on the Baby Boom Echo: Here Come the Teenagers (August 21, 1997)
• A Back to School Special Report: The Baby Boom Echo (August 1996) (No longer available on-line)

• Projections of Education Statistics to 2010

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