Decreasing birth rates, high housing costs and the growth of charter and private schools have all been mentioned and discussed as reasons Chandler Unified and some other Arizona public school districts are shrinking in enrollment.
But the demographers who’ve been reporting to the CUSD Governing Board and district administrators for years see some slowing in the decline and think the district will, over the next decade, drop somewhere in between the best- and worst-case scenarios in terms of falling enrollment.
Rick Brammer, of Applied Economics, along with assistant Don Graves, made what’s become an annual presentation to the board on the changing demographics of the district Oct. 7.
