New Report Shows Families Voting With Their Feet and Choosing Charter Schools
Public charter schools experienced significant enrollment gains, amid historic decline in overall public school enrollment.
Voting with Their Feet: A State-level Analysis of Public Charter School and District Public School Enrollment Trends shows hundreds of thousands of families switched to charter schools during the first full school year of the pandemic.
In 2017-18, more than 7,000 charter schools enroll nearly 3.2 million students. National charter school enrollment increased by more than 150,000 students between fall 2016 and fall 2017—a five percent increase.