Five Years On, COVID-Era Enrollment Declines Decimate L.A. Schools

Five Years On, COVID-Era Enrollment Declines Decimate L.A. Schools

Five years after COVID-19 shut down all the schools in Los Angeles, enrollment declines in the nation’s second largest district are worsening again. Since the pandemic, the Los Angeles Unified School District has lost more than 70,000 students. Enrollment has fallen to 408,083, from a peak of 746,831 in 2002. Losses steepened this year, too, with the district shedding more than 11,000 kids.  Nearly half of the district’s 456 zoned elementary sch…