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A Back to School Special Report on the Baby Boom Echo: Growing Pains (August 21, 2000)

Table 8. -- Fifteen states with the largest enrollment increases in grades 9 to 12 in public schools: Fall 2000 to fall 2010
(Numbers in thousands)

State Projected enrollment Number of
additional
students,
2000 to 2010
2000 2010
California 1,717 1,865 148
Texas 1,106 1,204 98
Arizona 243 305 62
Georgia 383 441 58
Illinois 587 640 53
North Carolina 349 392 43
Florida 677 716 39
Nevada 90 128 38
New Jersey 339 365 26
Tennessee 243 266 23
Virginia 318 339 21
Indiana 286 305 19
Colorado 207 226 19
Maryland 247 261 14
Massachusetts 272 283 11

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


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