{"id":1762,"date":"2016-01-13T14:55:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T19:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2016-01-20T09:47:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T14:47:40","slug":"maryland-public-school-enrollment-hits-new-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/maryland-public-school-enrollment-hits-new-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Public School Enrollment Hits New Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Nearly 880,000 Students Fill State K-12 Classrooms<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>For Immediate Release\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: William Reinhard, 410.767.0486<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore, MD<\/p>\n<p>Maryland public school enrollment has hit a new record, with nearly 880,000 students filling elementary, middle, and high school classrooms across the State.<\/p>\n<p>Enrollment increased 0.6 percent from 2014 to 2015, jumping from 874,514 to 879,601 students.\u00a0 Maryland\u2019s public schools have gained 35,740 students since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Howard County Public Schools grew the fastest, on a percentage basis, up 2.2 percent between 2014 and 2015.\u00a0 Howard\u2019s growth was followed by Wicomico, Montgomery, and Prince George\u2019s Counties.\u00a0 Overall, 12 of Maryland\u2019s 24 local school systems increased in enrollment over the 2014-15 school year.<\/p>\n<p>Maryland public school systems collect official enrollment numbers for each school year on September 30.\u00a0 Complete enrollment data can be found <a title=\"2015-2016 Student Publications\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marylandpublicschools.org\/MSDE\/divisions\/planningresultstest\/2015-2016-Student-Publications.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 880,000 Students Fill State K-12 Classrooms<br \/>\nFor Immediate Release\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: William Reinhard, 410.767.0486<br \/>\nBaltimore, MD<br \/>\nMaryland public school enrollment has hit a new record, with nearly 880,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/maryland-public-school-enrollment-hits-new-record\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","category-newsreleases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}