Posted on 11/09/2025 9:55:25 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
New York City public schools shed another 22,000 students this year, with enrollment plunging 2.4%, the steepest decline in four years, according to preliminary Department of Education data — and experts say this trend will only get worse under incoming Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
The startling new numbers follow a post-Covid trend that has seen families hit the exits over the past five years, adding up to a 12.2% decline.
Insiders see no end to the carnage.
“We are bleeding kids,” a city high school teacher told the Post.
At the start of the 2019-2020 school year, 1,002,200 kids were enrolled in NYC public schools. Today, the total has dipped to 844,400 — a stunning 117,800 drop.
Despite the exodus, the DOE budget has ballooned nearly $7 billion since 2019 to $40 billion this year.
“Every year is the same story, New York City public schools keep losing students, their budget grows, the per-pupil funding grows and we get the same mediocre results. It is a system that is failing,” said parent and Manhattan Institute Fellow Danyela Souza Egorov.
K-12 schools lost 18,411 students, while pre-K lost 4,555 pupils from the previous year.
Only 3K — programs for 3-year-olds — grew this year, adding 1,118 new students, the stats show. The surge could be fueled by working parents increasingly returning to the office.
Only 2023 saw an increase in students over the past five years — up 0.6% — which officials attributed to the migrant influx.
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Plenty of illegals to take their place.
Think of all the money they’ll save.
Enough to pay for all the promised free stuff!
Our super intelligent cell phones kiddies have decided that school is a waste of time. Especially when you already have a birth certificate to prove what sex you are.
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Mamdani effect just beginning
Parents need to remove the bureaucracy which is the NYC school system. Take it back by force if necessary.
I propose that to work in a school, you have to live in the district. Whether you are a teacher, administrator or school nurse. They need skin in the game and a good dose of property tax hikes will wake them up quickly.
according to preliminary Department of Education data
My local school district, Portland Maine, will not release their enrollments until the state publishes the state wide enrollments in January. They know I want it to use against them. If it were up, they would have already issued a press release.
As the Plandemic arrived, parents at all levels of public indoctrination could see and hear the public school insanity. They began the exodus.
Madmandani, also known as MadMahdidani, will just put the exodus from New York public indoctrination on high.
When it gets bad enough, look for the Federal Judges suffering from Boasberger's Syndrome to rule that the children must return to the New York indoctrination centers.
If that does not work, Boasberg himself will mandate that the public indoctrination centers, along with the unions, receive what they are entitled $$$$$, no matter the actual, real attendance figures.
I’d bet there hasn’t been a corresponding decrease in teachers or administrators.
The state should do census of the enrollment in NYC. There are 1000s of phantom kids counted each year. Obviously enrollment is exaggerated to avoid layoffs. We need to defund public education. We have to burn the village to save it.
A city that bleeds kids and makes their kids bleed sounds like an ideal liberal-run hellhole.
Commie schools run by commie union ‘teachers’ couldn’t be part of the problem, right?
What responsible parent would send their child to New York or any other big blue city public schools if they have any other option? None.
Should NYC have a Sharia Law Day so residents will know what is coming?
With a $40B budget, Deblasio skimmed $713mm off the top easily. (Nothing was done). Imagine what KM can grift.
WAIT UNTIL PEOPLE REALLY START MOVING OUT.
If half of the residents leave NYC, there will be plethora of available housing for the rest.
Maybe, that’s his plan to fulfill his housing promise.
But I thought that teachers liked small class sizes?
Not to worry. No teachers will lose their jobs or have a reduction in pay over this; the union will see to that!
My son’s first teaching job was at a Chicago inner city school. It was a private school, but what it really was, was a warehouse for problem LD/BD kids. His girlfriend’s, at the time, first teaching job was at a Chicago inner city public school, which is where they like to stick the new teachers. They both had horror stories. The girlfriend, who did not speak Spanish, was put in charge of Hispanic kids, who pretended not to understand English. They called her filthy names in Spanish, of which she understood a few. Very little education was accomplished in either classroom.
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