Private High School Enrollment on the Rise, Investigating Racial History

Dec 15, 2020, 6:00 PM

(From Inside Higher Ed) The number of private high school graduates will likely increase over the next 10 years, according to a recent report from the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education that was released on Tuesday. The organization expects 9% more private high school graduates in the Class of 2030 than in the Class of 2017. That’s about 4% above the 3.77 million high school graduates in the Class of 2019. After 2025, the projections show graduating private high school classes declining moderately in size over a dozen years due largely to the so-called birth dearth that dates to families having fewer children amid the economic disruptions of the Great Recession. The projections for private school graduates from 2020 to 2037 are strongly influenced by recent rapid enrollment increases for non-Catholic religious private schools and nonsectarian schools,

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