Monday, March 8, 2021

Schools Lose Students during Pandemic

 The 2020-2021 school year will be forever known as the Covid-19 school year.  As schools struggled to educate their students under unprecedented challenges, their enrollment predictably fell across the board in the Jackson metro area. 

Local school districts suffered an average loss of enrollment of 4.5% in the 2020-2021 school year.   JPS suffered the worst loss: 2,109 students (9% of the student population).  Clinton fared best as it only lost 56 students.  Every district lost students.

JPS: -9% (2,109 students)

Pearl: -8% (3,31 students)

Rankin County: -4% (776 students)

Hinds County: -4% (-214 students)

Canton: -4% (143 students)

Madison County: -2% (222 students)

Clinton: -1% (56 students)

More data as well as statistics for other Mississippi public school districts are posted below.

 

Jackson-Metro Area Public School Districts

Jackson Public Schools

2020-21: 20,401

2019-20: 22,510

Change: -2,109 students (-9%)

Rankin County

2020-21: 18,384

2019-20: 19,160

Change: - 776 students (-4%)

Madison County

2020-21: 12,988

2019-20: 13,210

Change: -222 students ( -2%)

Hinds County

2020-21: 5,364

2019-20:  5,578

Change: -214 students (-4%)

Pearl

2020-21: 4,035

2019-2020: 4,366

Change: -331 students (-8%)

Clinton

2020-21: 5,250

2019-20: 5,306

Change: -56 (-1%)

Canton

2020-21: 3,207

2019-20: 3,350

Change: -143 (-4%) 

 

Sampling of other Mississippi public school districts

Tupelo

2020-21: 7,005

2019-20: 7,002

Change: 3 students (0%)

Hattiesburg

2020-21: 3,698

2019-20: 3,852

Change: -154 students (-4%)

Meridian

2020-21: 4,940

2019-20: 5,143

Change: -203 students (-4%)

Jones County

2020-21: 8,073

2019-20: 8,837

Change: -764 students (-9%)

Harrison County

2020-21: 13,666

2019-20: 14,780

Change: -1,114 (-7%)

Desoto County

2020-21: 34,067

2019-20: 34,752

Change: -685 students (-2%)

East Jasper County

2020-21: 824

2019-20: 847

Change: -23 students (-3%)


16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Don't understand how you "lose" enrollment. They should either be attending classes in person or virtually. The only other options I know of are home schooling, and that takes the permission of the state, or attendance at private schools. Seems to me if they don't fall into one of those categories they are truant. Is that what you mean, all these kids are truant?

Anonymous said...

Does this mean that students were taken out of the public school system and either home schooled or put in the private education system? Or is this where they went 'virtual' but the students basically revolted and didn't do their virtual work? Or something else?

Anonymous said...

The real loss will be measured in 5-10 years when those students who lost all in-person instruction for almost a year never catch up to their peers and wind up in the criminal justice system or on perpetual welfare. Mainly JPS. More systemic racism I guess.

Anonymous said...

Hopefully these numbers indicate an increase in the number of homeschooling families in Mississippi. Parents having more control over their kids' education is a good thing.

Anonymous said...

And the legislature is going to fund them at last year's numbers. So basically being paid to educate kids they aren't educating. And ensure public schools never have to do anything to modernize or adapt.

Anonymous said...

It was all worth it to depose Orange Hitler and undertake The Great Reset

Lets be honest. The ones who couldn’t be self motivated to keep learning certainly weren’t the next Dr. Ben Carson.

At most they might contribute a viral video, popular mixtape, or a winning sportsball season.

Anonymous said...

Des this mean that JPS will need less from the taxpayers to operate?

Anonymous said...

11:52 No it means those JPS students will cost the taxpayers more in welfare and incarceration expenses. Education was their only chance. Their "leaders" abandoned them and sent their kids to private schools.

Anonymous said...

Looks like all of these metro districts will need a little less to operate with the exception of Clinton.

Anonymous said...

Less young families in the state coupled with a lower birth rate means less students It’s not really a pandemic issue here-when we live in a state with a declining population this is going to happen. (people move out in their 20/30s not their 70/80s..)

Anonymous said...

I think its a matter of parents saying "screw it" and they are home schooling, which is better than trying to teach 30 nine year olds on the internet at the same time. Without the rigidity of the institution we call public schools, such a task is like herding cats.

Anonymous said...

You people say “home schooling” as if it is an easy alternative! True pedagogy is a gift, a calling, and a trained skill. I know I sure as Hell don’t have the gift for it, nor the training, and God help any child looking to me for what only a real teacher can provide. I think we must just all count thus as a lost year. At least all the students have “lost it” together (except for the private schoolers, who seem to have had a quasi-normal year). In the long scheme of things, it won’t be an irremediable loss. And the smart ‘uns won’t have missed a beat, and the stupid ones were just being babysat in class, anyway.

Anonymous said...

These declines definitely reflect those who either moved or withdrew for homeschooling or private school. Virtual students are still enrolled students.

Clinton faired best because their superintendent actually had the balls to implement smart policies from day 1. He didn’t wait on the pack to make choices. Clinton announced hybrid, followed by in-person learning WAY before anyone else. They have good policies in place for teachers and students who contract the virus or have been exposed. It’s a shame he’s leaving this year. Hope the new guy from Petal is as good as Chapman has been.

Anonymous said...

1:58 nailed it. Mississippi lost more than 35,000 millennials through Feel's regime.

Less baby mommas = fewer children.

And Jackson has been closing one school for the past 7 years.

Anonymous said...

@9:05 - Chapman? Try Martin. And puh-leaze, he followed the crowd, which is what he's doing now.

Anonymous said...

@7:18a- Martin is the correct name (Chapman is PR guy), but you must not have direct dealings with CPSD. He announced hybrid schedule at least 2 weeks before anyone else and announced back to classroom schedule before anyone else. And, while other districts struggled to put first-time devices in everyone’s hands, Clinton has replaced existing devices with new devices. Because everyone already had devices (K-12) before pandemic, Clinton was able to more smoothly transition to virtual, followed by hybrid. Give CPSD credit when credit is due!


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