Interim Superintendent of Schools SUBJECT: PROFILE OF MOBILE STUDENTS 2004-05 to 2006-07

Following years of steady increases, South Florida began to experience a decrease in enrollment in the 2005-06 school year. According to Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions, for most South Florida counties, including Broward, the number of enrolled students did not meet reduced enrollment projections. Florida Department of Education data also show this enrollment trend in Florida’s private schools, where the number of students enrolled began to decline in 2003-04, a year prior to the first decline in Broward County Public Schools (BCPS), and the number of private schools began to decline the following year. The present study provides an analysis of students who left District schools during the last three years, or who moved from a BCPS traditional school to a BCPS charter school within the District. Data analyses included examination of enrollment in BCPS, withdrawal from BCPS, within-District mobility (intradistrict mobility), and the movement of students out of the District (interdistrict mobility). Data were analyzed for students enrolled at least one day at any point in time during the school years 2004-05 and 2005-06, along with partial data for 2006-07. Consequently, this report provides more detail than the 2006-07 Twentieth Day Enrollment Report Breakdown, which reflects a simple numerical difference between the twentieth da