growing k-12 staff amidst declining enrollment
Public schools added 121,000 employees last year, even as they served 110,000 fewer students.
This is a continuation of recent trends. In per-student terms, public schools have hit new all-time staffing highs in each of the last three years.
The 74’s art and technology director, Eamonn Fitzmaurice, and I have been following these trends and mapping out how they’re changing across the country. We’ve now updated our charts through the 2023-24 school year. Click on the map below to see what’s happening in your community.
