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A Back to School Special Report on the Baby Boom Echo: America's Schools Are Overcrowded and Wearing Out -- (August 17, 1999)

Figure 3. -- Number of 3- to 5-year olds and preprimary enrollment: 1989 to 2009

Number of children (in millions)

Enrollment in preprimary education has increased in recent years, reaching about 7.8 million in 1998. About two-thirds of 3- to 5-year-olds attended preprimary programs in 1998, but about 4.3 million were not enrolled. Enrollment rates differed by age, with about 39 percent of 3-year-olds, 67 percent of 4-year-olds, and 89 percent of 5-year-olds enrolled in preprimary programs.

*Some of the enrollment increase in 1994 is attributed to changes in survey procedures.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Projections of Education Statistics to 2009; and special tabulations.


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[ Figure 2. -- Enrollment in public and private elementary and secondary schools: Fall 1969 to fall 2009 ] [ Table of Contents ] [ Figure 4. -- Change in number of students enrolled in elementary and secondary and higher education students: Fall 1999 to fall 2009 ]

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