NYC families are fleeing some of city’s top school districts at an alarming rate

This is completely understandable in light of what de Blasio and now Adams have done to this once-great city. Skyrocketing crime, encouragement of Jew-hatred, exacerbation of racial tensions, race-hate and Communist propaganda forced upon our children in the schools — did New York City officials think that families in the city would take all of this indefinitely? The families that have left are doing what they have to do to protect their children and bring them up with sound values. New York City has abandoned that endeavor, and is paying the price.

“NYC families leaving some of city’s top school districts at alarming rate,” by Selim Algar, New York Post, February 17, 2022:

They’re going, going, gone.

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Families in some of the city’s top school districts are leaving the Department of Education at an alarming clip, according to state data.

Mayor Eric Adams speculated this week that parents who’ve ditched the city and its public schools are likely to return as soon as Gotham gathers itself.

But that ongoing flight — which is hammering school budgets — is hitting traditionally popular districts especially hard.

Elementary school enrollment in Manhattan’s District 2, which encompasses affluent areas like Greenwich Village and Soho, is down 10 percent this year and 17 percent over the last two.

According to state figures, the district went from roughly 16,040 kids in 2020 to over 13,333 this year — a loss of more than 2,500 students over that span.

Mayor Eric Adams said he believes the families will return to New York City eventually.

A concerned district source noted that that would equate to the closure of up to seven district elementary schools.

In Brooklyn’s District 15, which includes Park Slope, elementary school enrollment has skidded by 16 percent since the onset of the pandemic, and shed more than 1,800 kids over that stretch.

The Maurice Sendak School, a reliably high-performing elementary school on 8th Street in Park Slope, has lost more than a third of its enrollment over the past two years, dropping from 340 to 219 this year.

At PS 58 on Smith Street, enrollment has dropped by more than a quarter over the last two years, going from 1008 to just 740 this year.

PS 41’s numbers have gone down by 26 percent from 2019.

Both Sendak and PS 58 boast test scores well above the citywide average….

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