2025/2026 Enrollment Update: Over the past five years, TPS has worked diligently to maintain and grow enrollment. After four years of steady increases, we anticipated a decline for the 2025–26 school year (THS graduated 252 students - our largest class). Through targeted marketing with K12 Media, local newspapers, and social media, we successfully limited the decrease to a manageable level). For perspective, projections in 2021–22 estimated 2,174 students for this year (Source: Eidex/Munetrix). Instead, I am proud to report that 2,587 students are enrolled for 2025–26. Additionally, our School of Choice program now brings in an annual revenue of almost $5 million. To better understand the current state of public school enrollment, please note the following:
Between fall 2019 and fall 2023, public school enrollment fell from 50.8 million to 49.5 million, a loss of more than 1.2 million students, or 2.5%. The pandemic accelerated that decline, but enrollment was already falling in some grades and communities before COVID, and that trend is expected to continue: The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) projects overall enrollment will fall below 47 million by 2031. Source: https://www.the74million.org - Tara Moon is a policy analyst at FutureEd and a former Teach For America corps member in Washington, D.C.
Closer to home. Wayne County has seen a decrease of almost 50% of school aged children since 2002. In Downriver, enrollment increases have been evident in a select few communities. TPS had been an exception to this exception over the last four years (see below):
Overview of data - oral/visual report:
SOC Table 2024.25
TPS Enrollment History
Board Report RAW Enrollment Counts 25-26- NOT FINAL
Between fall 2019 and fall 2023, public school enrollment fell from 50.8 million to 49.5 million, a loss of more than 1.2 million students, or 2.5%. The pandemic accelerated that decline, but enrollment was already falling in some grades and communities before COVID, and that trend is expected to continue: The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) projects overall enrollment will fall below 47 million by 2031. Source: https://www.the74million.org - Tara Moon is a policy analyst at FutureEd and a former Teach For America corps member in Washington, D.C.
Closer to home. Wayne County has seen a decrease of almost 50% of school aged children since 2002. In Downriver, enrollment increases have been evident in a select few communities. TPS had been an exception to this exception over the last four years (see below):
Overview of data - oral/visual report:
SOC Table 2024.25
TPS Enrollment History
Board Report RAW Enrollment Counts 25-26- NOT FINAL
