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A Back to School Special Report on the Baby Boom Echo: America's Schools Are Overcrowded and Wearing Out -- (September 8, 1998)

Table 6 .-- Enrollment growth in selected suburban school districts: Fall 1996 to fall 1998

District City State Enrollment Percent change,
1996 to 1998
1996 1997 1998
Peoria Peoria Arizona 27,782 29,359 30,948 11.4
Capistrano San Juan Capistrano California 37,539 40,174 42,713 13.8
Clovis Clovis California 30,627 30,960 31,306 2.2
Elk Grove Elk Grove California 37,787 40,216 41,991 11.1
San Diego San Diego California 133,687 --- 139,000 4.0
Cherry Creek Englewood Colorado 36,569 38,088 40,395 10.5
Denver Denver Colorado 66,331 --- 69,100 4.2
Brevard Melbourne Florida 65,493 66,654 69,515 6.1
Marion Ocala Florida 35,521 36,531 37,568 5.8
Osceola Kissimmee Florida 27,431 28,841 30,006 9.4
Pasco Land O'Lakes Florida 43,233 44,477 45,811 6.0
Polk Bartow Florida 71,910 73,652 75,361 4.8
Seminole Sanford Florida 54,694 55,778 56,900 4.0
Meridian Meridian Idaho 19,624 --- 21,666 10.4
Indian Prairie Naperville Illinois 17,091 --- 19,000 11.2
M. S. D. Lawrence [1] Indianapolis Indiana 14,319 --- 15,275 6.7
Blue Valley Overland Park Kansas 14,403 --- 15,900 10.4
Howard Ellicott City Maryland 38,857 40,215 41,770 7.5
Montgomery Rockville Maryland 122,505 125,035 127,918 4.4
Prince Georges Marlboro Maryland 125,198 128,347 128,699 2.8
Eden Prairie Eden Prairie Minnesota 9,660 --- 10,008 3.6
Rosemount-Apple Rosemount Minnesota 26,048 27,230 27,761 6.6
South Washington Cottage Grove Minnesota 13,921 --- 15,000 7.8
Fort Zumwalt O'Fallon Missouri 13,742 --- 15,000 9.2
Francis Howell St. Charles Missouri 18,106 --- 18,655 3.0
Rockwood Eureka Missouri 19,871 --- 20,887 5.1
Guilford Greensboro North Carolina 55,000 59,000 60,000 9.1
Lakota Local West Chester Ohio 13,160 --- 14,050 6.8
Cypress Fairbanks Houston Texas 53,098 55,838 58,578 10.3
Garland Garland Texas 45,309 46,977 48,507 7.1
Lewisville Lewisville Texas 29,496 32,541 34,741 17.8
Plano Plano Texas 35,816 43,325 43,880 22.5
Socorro El Paso Texas 21,098 22,155 23,610 11.9
Alpine American Fort Utah 43,719 --- 45,372 3.8
Jordan Sandy Utah 71,080 71,561 72,887 2.5
Fairfax Fairfax Virginia 142,925 145,292 148,681 4.0

--- Data not available.

1. School district estimated range for 1998 is reported here as the median of the range.

NOTE: Districts selected partly based on enrollment growth between 1990 and 1995, and partly based on data availability.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, school district estimates; and National Center for Education Statistics, preliminary data from "Common Core of Data, 1996" survey.


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[ Table 5. -- Twenty-five school districts with the largest increases in enrollment: Fall 1985 to fall 1995 ] [ Table of Contents ] [ Figure 6. -- Percent change in enrollment in public secondary schools, by state: Fall 1988 to fall 2008 ]

Last Updated -- September 7, 1998, (pjk)