NJ’s Enrollment to Outpace Northeast

NJ’s Enrollment to Outpace Northeast

Enrollment in New Jersey’s public schools will continue to rise through 2016 at a rate far outpacing other Northeast states, according to a recent report from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics.

The report, “Projection of Education Statistics to 2016,” provides projections for key statistics about public education. It includes projections on enrollment, graduates, teachers and expenditures in elementary and secondary schools for the past 15 years, as well as projections into the next nine years.

New Jersey’s public school enrollment—which already had grown 9.8 percent from 1998 to 2004, the seventh highest rate in the nation during those years—will continue to grow yet another 4.4 percent from 2004 to 2016. Except for New Hampshire, which expects a 2-percent increase in enrollment from 2004 to 2016, all Northeast states north of Pennsylvania can anticipate enrollment decreases in the coming years.

However, New Jersey’s expected enrollment growth in the coming years will still lag behind the national average of 9.2 percent enrollment growth from 2004-2016.

The fastest growing state? Nevada, where the number of students from 2004 to 2016 will grow nearly 37 percent.