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Growing Pains: The Challenge of Overcrowded Schools Is Here to Stay -- (August 2000)

Figure 4.--Number of 3- to 5-year-olds and preprimary enrollment: 1990 to 2010

Enrollment in preprimary education has increased in recent years, reaching about 7.8 million in 1999. About two-thirds of 3- to 5-year-olds attended preprimary programs in 1999, but about 4.1 million were not enrolled. Enrollment rates differed by age, with about 39 percent of 3-year-olds, 69 percent of 4-year-olds, and 88 percent of 5-year-olds enrolled in preprimary programs.

* Some of the enrollment increase since 1993 is attributable to changes in survey procedures.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics, 1999; and U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Population Projections of the United States by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 1995 to 2050.


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[ Figure 3.--Enrollment in public and private elementary and secondary schools: Fall 1970 to fall 2010 ] 		[ Table of Contents ]
[ Figure 5.--Increase in number of students enrolled in public and private schools, by level: Fall 1990 to fall 2000
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