Oklahoma Public School Enrollment: What the Latest Data Tells Us

Oklahoma public school enrollment: What the latest data tells us

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — There were 697,358 students counted on Oct. 1, 2024, according to the Oklahoma Department of Education. That’s down 0.2% from 2023, and 0.9% lower than the all-time high of 703,650 set in 2019, before Covid-19 disruptions.

School Enrollment Shifts Five Years After the Pandemic

In spring 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic caused school closures throughout the United States—a seismic disruption with immediate effects on enrollment. By fall 2020, early research found that K–12 public school enrollment had dropped by 3 percent nationwide, as growing numbers of families opted to homeschool or transfer their children to private schools. This was the largest annual decline since 1943, when World War II led large numbers of teenager…

Did COVID have a lasting impact on public school enrollment?

An enrollment decline in Massachusetts may signal broader post-pandemic trends nationwide, an Education Next study suggests.