Thursday, March 21, 2013

Is Kentucky private school enrollment declining?

Using data from the 2011 Digest of Education Statistics, here's a graph that does seem to show a trend: 
The notes for the relevant table add that the numbers come from the NCES "Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 1999-2000 through 2009-10."  

Public school enrollment numbers seem to have risen in all but one year of the same period:


For this graph, the 1999 figure comes from the 2011 Digest and the others from one of the recently released "selected tables" from the 2012 Digest.

3 comments:

  1. Does the private school data include homeschoolers?

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    1. I'm going to go hunt for the underlying survey to find out.

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  2. From the design description at http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/: " Organizations or institutions that provide support for home schooling without offering classroom instruction for students are not included."

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Updates and data on Kentucky education!