Competition for students is on the rise among traditional public schools, charter schools, private schools and homeschooling within the nation’s 125 largest school districts. But that competition is only modest in scale, according to a study released Tuesday by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education reform think tank.
Fordham’s research found the proportion of students in grades 1-8 who were not enrolled in a traditional district-run school increased by about 3 percentage points between 2010 and 2020, from about 15% to 18%. The increase in nondistrict school enrollment is mainly due to the growth of charter schools, a report on the Fordham study said.
