During the fiscal crisis of the mid-1970's, for example, the schools returned nearly 200 school buildings to the city because enrollment had decreased.
Faculty salaries were cut drastically, and enrollment decreased along with State appropriations to the college.
By the 1970s, the student population had grown to over 3,300, though the enrollment has decreased since then.
In the following school year (2003-2004) alone, the district's enrollment had decreased 5% to just over 43,000 students.
Homestead's enrollment has decreased from 1610 in 2003 to 1405 in 2011-2012.
During the Depression years, enrollment decreased and some programs were discontinued, following which an improvement program was implemented in 1933.
It's interesting to note that while enrollment has decreased in the high schools, we have more student cars than ever.
Over the years as the housing project became vacant, The school's enrollment decreased.
The 1978-79 enrollment due to the declining birth rate of the early 1960s decreased to 954 (326 black, 661 white).
Since 2000 rural Pennsylvania school enrollment has decreased by 8 percent.