As California public school enrollment declines again, state officials look to transitional kindergarten growth as a promising development.
Enrollment at California's public schools continued to decline this year, but by only .25%, or 15,000 students, state data showed, a much slower pace than the steep declines experienced during difficult pandemic years when classes were forced online. A total of 5,837,690 students were enrolled in the 2023-24 school year, according to data released Thursday from the state Department of Education.
' But there was also a bright spot in the data: Enrollment in transitional kindergarten — California's newly expanding grade for 4-year-olds — doubled over the last two years, from 75,465 in 2021-22 to 151,491 in 2023-24, the state wrote in a news release. The state did not provide separate figures for enrollment in TK last year, but instead combined it with kindergarten students.
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