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Matawan-Aberdeen report projects about 12% enrollment growth; elementary schools likely to exceed capacity by 2030
Summary
A district presentation outlined demographic trends and projections that forecast roughly a 12% increase in student enrollment over the next decade, concentrating capacity pressure at the elementary level and prompting potential boundary changes or reconfiguration within several years.
At a recent Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District Board of Education meeting, the district's enrollment consultant presented demographic projections showing roughly a 12% increase in total student enrollment over the coming decade, to about 4,422 students under the mid-level scenario through the 2034–35 school year.
The presentation, delivered as part of the superintendent's report, relied on U.S. Census Bureau data, New Jersey Department of Health birth records and University of Virginia long-term population projections to build enrollment scenarios. The consultant told the board the district has seen a 6.9% population increase between 2010 and 2020, housing units rose by…
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