ST. LUCIE COUNTY — For the first time in more than a decade, St. Lucie Public Schools recorded a decline in student enrollment after years of steady growth of 800 to 1,200 students annually.
Superintendent Dr. Jon R. Prince said the unexpected decrease follows expanded school choice options for families across Florida.
“But with the implementation of the Florida Empowerment Scholarship and the options that families have with regards to using those scholarships either to go to private school, home school, micro school, there’s plenty of options for our families. So this year we saw drop in enrollment that we did not anticipate,” Prince said…