How Washington public school enrollment is changing
Fewer students means less state funding per district, and some districts are weighing school closures and consolidations. See how enrollment has changed since before the pandemic, district by district and school by school, using official OSPI counts.
Statewide enrollment
Show the numbers as a table
| School year | Students | Change from the year before |
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Districts
Schools
Schools that closed or merged
No longer reported to OSPI — may have closed, merged, been renamed or re-coded. These schools reported students in an earlier year but have no enrollment in the latest year. That alone does not prove a school closed: programs move, schools change names and codes, and some report under another building. Check with the district before relying on it.
“OSPI note” shows where OSPI’s own school name says the school closed.
Officially announced closures and mergers
Only decisions published by a school district or OSPI, each with a link to the official source. This list is not complete.
How entries get here: the site owner adds an entry to data/closures.json (district, schools, status, date and source_url) only after reading the announcement on the district’s or OSPI’s own website.
Methods and sources
- Enrollment: OSPI Report Card enrollment on data.wa.gov, all students in all grades for each school, district and the state.