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

Figure 5.--Increase in number of students enrolled in public and private schools, by level: Fall 1990 to fall 2000

The number of public and private school students increased at all grade levels during the 1990s. Continuing the pattern of growth during the late 1980s, the number of students in grades 1 through 5 rose an additional 1.8 million between 1990 and 2000. Echoing the increases at the lower grade levels, the number of students in grades 6 through 8 rose by 1.7 million, and the number of students in the high school grades increased by 2.4 million. Between 1990 and 2000, college enrollment rose an estimated 1.3 million.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Projections of Education Statistics to 2010; and special tabulations.


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[ Figure 4.--Number of 3- to 5-year-olds and preprimary enrollment: 1990 to 2010 ] 		[ Table of Contents ]
[ Table 1.--Enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools, by grade: Fall 1983 to fall 2010 ]
Last Updated -- August 22, 2000, (lvb)