Immigration alone can’t solve New York City’s public-school enrollment shortfall, a recent commentary concludes.
“Since 2020, New York City public schools have lost nearly 70,000 students in grades K–12 – equivalent to 8 percent of their student population,” writes Danyela Souza Egorov, fellow at the Manhattan Institute and founder of Families for NY.
“This drop occurred despite an influx of 48,000 recent immigrant students since the summer of 2022.”
Egorov’s commentary, published in the City Journal, lamented the current “mismatch between falling attendance and rising budgets” making the city’s public-education system the costliest nationwide while failing students academically.
“No city spends more to achieve such mediocre results for its children,” Egorov concluded.
