APS Enrollment Down

APS Supt. Winston Brooks

KOB TV - A mysterious drop in student enrollment has New Mexico's biggest public school district wondering why it is happening and how much it is going to cost. Albuquerque Public Schools is looking at a net loss of just over 1,000 students, and that could mean lopping off more millions from a budget that has already been shrinking in the Great Recession. So far, nobody really knows where the 1,013 students went. They are not showing up in charter school enrollment. APS is checking with other school districts to see if families have moved to Rio Rancho, or Los Lunas, or some other towns. The bottom line is an even tighter budget for a school system that has been cut by $100 million over the past three years, with a loss of about 1,000 jobs. "What that means in terms of dollars is about $6.6 million," said APS Chief Financial Officer Don Moya. "That's what those students represent in terms of dollars from the funding formula from the state." APS has about 89,000 students, so this is a loss of more than 1 percent. Read full story here: News New Mexico

APS Enrollment Down