Public schools in Wisconsin continue to lose students.
The state’s Department of Public Instruction released enrollment figures for the state on Friday, they show an overall half-a-percent drop in the number of students. That’s far less than last year’s three-percent drop, but larger than the decline in enrollment from before the coronavirus outbreak began. Some of the decline is demographics, there are simply fewer school-aged kids in Wisconsin. But the decline is also happening as private and charter school enrollment in the state is climbing. Some schools, like Milwaukee and Madison, have lost thousands of students over the past two years.
