For example, in Hawaii, student enrollment in public schools jumped about 3 percent between 1992 and 2009 yet non-teaching personnel jumped almost 69 percent.
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With colleges providing more campus goodies and paying professors more money, while student enrollment levels remain largely unchanged, the cost to educate each student rises dramatically.
Also, the companies are ramping up construction at time when college-student enrollment has slipped, falling 1.8% in 2012 from 2011, according to the nonprofit National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
White students have realized that historically black colleges can cost half as much as other schools, and declining black student enrollment has forced many black colleges to recruit students of all races.
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Last year, the archdiocese closed 27 elementary schools, citing shrinking student bodies: Since 2006, enrollment has plunged by 14, 550 students, officials said.
Some require essays or enrollment packets, others require student or parent interviews.
Enrollment and attendance data refer to entire undergraduate student body.
The latest idea, to be voted on in May, would create a student count, for the purpose of assigning classes, by taking the actual enrollment, and then adding the number of athletes who live outside their school district boundaries, or attend a public school outside their high school district boundary (for those students attending, say, a magnet or charter school outside their neighborhood).
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The below chart plots the growth in total federal and state student aid against the change in one measure of college affordability: the ratio of real average FTE enrollment-weighted tuition to real median family income.
Enrollment at the secondary level has grown, both in absolute terms and as a proportion of the student-age population, and attainment rates compare favorably with those of other industrial countries.
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