Private vs public schools

For years, we have documented the declining enrollment in Cabell County public schools. Most of the decline can be traced to the falling number of school-age children in the county. But part is an exodus of children to home school or private schools.

These are numbers I got from the state Department of Education. The list goes only to the 2005-06 school year. But they are instructive:




Note that the number of home-school children has gone up quite a bit. And enrollment in church-based private schools is up 574, while public school enrollment is down by 1,275.

More comment on this later. For now, I just wanted to get the numbers up here and see a discussion started.