Oregon's public schools have lost 30,000 students since the fall of 2019. Most are in private school or home-school, but there are hundreds and hundreds of children who never returned to a school building.
Oregon’s public schools have hemorrhaged students since the onset of the pandemic, leaving thousands of children outside the bounds of a system that is supposed to be both a safety net and launch pad.
The state’s enrollment losses, which total 30,000, or 5%, were the second highest in the country, according to Stanford University’s data-driven Big Local News project. Only Mississippi lost a larger share.
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