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Arlington ISD demographer: apartment mobility and charter transfers drive student losses; kindergarten enrollment is key to recovery
Summary
Rocky Gardner of Zonda Education told Arlington ISD trustees April 17 that the district lost about 1,300 students this year and that apartment mobility and transfers to charter schools account for a substantial share of the losses.
Rocky Gardner of Zonda Education presented the Arlington ISD spring demographer report April 17, telling the Board of Trustees that the district recorded a larger-than-expected enrollment decline this year and that much of the loss is tied to mobile multifamily populations and transfers to charter schools.
Gardner said the district’s enrollment came in with a drop of “about 1,300 students,” and that the district’s “levers” — students who were in Arlington ISD last year but not this year — were “right at 8,500,” down roughly 1,000 from the prior year. He told trustees that new TEA transfer reports show 2,546 students transferred into Arlington ISD this year, an increase of about 100 from the previous year.
Gardner emphasized that a large share of levers are concentrated in apartment complexes and that…
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