Rogers Park schools see increase in enrollment
Posted by loyolastudentdispatch on July 20, 2011
Public and private schools in Rogers Park and other parts of the Far North Side are bucking Chicago Public School enrollment trends, as enrollment in schools has increased over the past five years.
Here is a portion of the story from the Chicago Tribune:
Schools on the North and Northwest sides enrolled more students even as enrollment slipped across the city’s school system to 404,589 last year, down 1.5 percent from five years ago, state records show.
Student attendance in the northern stretch of the city climbed 2.4 percent during the last two years from 121,897 to 124,836 students in 2010-11, according to district enrollment records. The growth, while slight, came as attendance slipped in every other city zone — the West, Southwest, South and Far South sides.
And citywide, residents who had children were more likely to stay more years in their city residence in 2009 than they were in 1990, according to a preliminary analysis of census data by Jim Lewis, a demographer and senior program officer at the Chicago Community Trust.
Read the entire Tribune story here: SCHOOLS
