On the first day of school, Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Jose Dotres said Thursday that last school year’s dramatic enrollment decline of 12,000 students was a one-off and he doesn’t anticipate a sequel.
“ I think moving forward, we have more of a stabilized understanding of what enrollment will look like moving forward,” Dotres said. “It was last year that really made a difference.”
Dotres said the biggest factor contributing to the plunge is the lack of families and students moving to the county from abroad, what the district labels a “newcomer” student…