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| Table 9. Actual and projected percentage changes in 9–12 enrollment in public schools, by region and state: Selected years, fall 1997 through fall 2015 [In thousands] |
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| Region and state | Actual 1997–2003 | Projected | ||
| 2003–2009 | 2009–2015 | 2003–2015 | ||
| United States | 9.8 | 4.0 | -0.9 | 3.1 |
| Northeast | 9.9 | 0.5 | -6.8 | -6.4 |
| Connecticut | 20.3 | 2.1 | -4.8 | -2.9 |
| Maine | 6.0 | -7.6 | -5.8 | -12.9 |
| Massachusetts | 14.2 | -1.9 | -4.6 | -6.4 |
| New Hampshire | 16.0 | -5.1 | -6.2 | -11.0 |
| New Jersey | 22.3 | 7.7 | -2.9 | 4.6 |
| New York | 4.2 | -0.5 | -9.5 | -9.9 |
| Pennsylvania | 6.7 | -0.1 | -7.3 | -7.5 |
| Rhode Island | 15.9 | 1.0 | -7.5 | -6.5 |
| Vermont | 0.2 | -11.8 | -9.9 | -20.5 |
| Midwest | 5.0 | 0.5 | -2.7 | -2.2 |
| Illinois | 8.6 | 5.6 | -4.5 | 0.9 |
| Indiana | 0.1 | 6.1 | 0.7 | 6.8 |
| Iowa | -5.1 | -0.6 | 0.1 | -0.5 |
| Kansas | 4.8 | -4.4 | -0.4 | -4.7 |
| Michigan | 13.3 | 1.7 | -4.6 | -3.0 |
| Minnesota | 4.9 | -5.5 | -0.4 | -5.9 |
| Missouri | 5.0 | 0.5 | -1.6 | -1.1 |
| Nebraska | -1.0 | -2.3 | 0.8 | -1.5 |
| North Dakota | -10.1 | -12.3 | -11.2 | -22.2 |
| Ohio | 3.5 | -0.6 | -4.2 | -4.7 |
| South Dakota | -11.2 | -9.5 | -2.1 | -11.4 |
| Wisconsin | 4.4 | -3.9 | -1.8 | -5.6 |
| South | 10.1 | 5.2 | 3.7 | 9.1 |
| Alabama | -1.1 | 1.0 | -1.3 | -0.3 |
| Arkansas | -0.9 | 0.5 | 3.8 | 4.3 |
| Delaware | 4.8 | 8.9 | 2.3 | 11.3 |
| District of Columbia | 8.2 | 8.8 | -30.7 | -24.6 |
| Florida | 23.1 | 7.2 | 3.8 | 11.2 |
| Georgia | 14.8 | 8.3 | 8.4 | 17.4 |
| Kentucky | -4.8 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 2.9 |
| Louisiana | -10.3 | -0.2 | -3.8 | -4.0 |
| Maryland | 15.1 | 1.9 | -2.6 | -0.8 |
| Mississippi | -5.1 | 2.0 | -1.4 | 0.6 |
| North Carolina | 17.2 | 6.3 | 6.4 | 13.1 |
| Oklahoma | -1.7 | -3.0 | # | -3.0 |
| South Carolina | 6.4 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 4.8 |
| Tennessee | 9.1 | 4.0 | 2.2 | 6.2 |
| Texas | 13.2 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 16.9 |
| Virginia | 16.9 | 7.1 | 1.0 | 8.1 |
| West Virginia | -12.7 | -2.8 | -3.8 | -6.5 |
| West | 14.5 | 8.3 | -1.8 | 6.4 |
| Alaska | 10.3 | -1.7 | -4.3 | -6.0 |
| Arizona | 41.1 | 20.9 | 11.1 | 34.4 |
| California | 16.5 | 10.1 | -7.1 | 2.3 |
| Colorado | 14.9 | 4.0 | 5.7 | 9.9 |
| Hawaii | 0.1 | -1.6 | -3.1 | -4.7 |
| Idaho | 1.5 | 4.0 | 9.6 | 14.1 |
| Montana | -4.3 | -9.6 | -3.3 | -12.6 |
| Nevada | 34.5 | 31.6 | 12.1 | 47.5 |
| New Mexico | 1.0 | -0.8 | -4.6 | -5.4 |
| Oregon | 8.1 | -3.2 | 0.2 | -3.1 |
| Utah | -4.5 | 3.9 | 12.2 | 16.6 |
| Washington | 8.5 | 0.4 | -2.8 | -2.5 |
| Wyoming | -12.1 | -11.3 | -2.7 | -13.7 |
| # Rounds to zero. | ||||
| NOTE: Calculations are based on unrounded numbers. Mean absolute percentage errors of selected education statistics can be found in table A-2, appendix A. | ||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, The NCES Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," selected years, 1997–98 through 2003–04; and State Elementary and Secondary Enrollment Model, 1980–2003. (This table was prepared November 2005.) | ||||
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