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Superintendent: RSU 40 enrollment down about 1% annually; homeschooling surge during COVID noted
Summary
Superintendent reported a gradual districtwide enrollment decline of about 1% per year and said statewide homeschooling rose from roughly 3,000 pre‑COVID to about 12,000 during the pandemic; county birth rates and special-education placements were cited as contributing factors.
The RSU 40 / MSAD 40 superintendent told the board the district is seeing a gradual decline in student enrollment — "about 1% per year" — and presented a five-year summary of student counts.
The superintendent connected district enrollment changes to demographic trends and pandemic-era shifts, citing state and county birth-rate data: "for the state of Maine over the past decade or so, there's been a decline of about 5 percent in new births compared to Lincoln County, which has increased by 2 percent. But in Knox County, it's decreased by…
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