ENROLLMENT ON DECLINE FEWER STUDENTS IN GLENDALE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT CLASSES.Byline: Naush Boghossian Staff Writer GLENDALE Glendale. 1 City (1990 pop. 148,134), Maricopa co., S central Ariz., adjacent to Phoenix; inc. 1910. It is located in a rich agricultural region irrigated by the Salt River project. Glendale has become one of the fastest-growing U.S. - After a steady 17-year increase in enrollment, the number of students registered in Glendale schools is on the decline, officials said Wednesday Wednesday: see week. . More than 30,300 students are enrolled this year in the Glendale Unified School District The Glendale Unified School District is a school district based in Glendale, California, United States. The school district serves the city of Glendale, portions of the city of La Cañada and the unincorporated communities of Montrose and La Crescenta. , a number that is expected to drop next year to about 30,065. Projections show enrollment declining even more through the 2005-06 school year. District spokesman Vic Pallos said the rising cost of housing in Glendale could be one reason that families are leaving the district. ``Whenever we see the cost of property increasing, including rental charges, it does seem to have an effect, particularly on families with younger children,'' he said. ``But it could very well be a natural progression progression, in mathematics, sequence of quantities, called terms, in which the relationship between consecutive terms is the same. An arithmetic progression is a sequence in which each term is derived from the preceding one by adding a given number, d, of the demographics The attributes of people in a particular geographic area. Used for marketing purposes, population, ethnic origins, religion, spoken language, income and age range are examples of demographic data. in the community.'' Pallos said the shrinking enrollment is most noticeable in the upper elementary grades. Since 1984, the district has experienced a steady enrollment increase, attributed mainly to the influx of ethnic and minority groups. ``At some point, it levels off and begins to decline,'' Pallos said. ``We think that's going to continue.'' Another report released Wednesday showed that during the past year, the number of minorities in the district has gone down slightly, from 42.45 percent to 41.97 percent of the total student population. ``The minority percentage started to grow in the '70s and is now leveling off. The pendulum could be swinging back a little bit,'' Pallos said. ``We should look at a span of three to five years and whether the percentage of families is, in fact, beginning to decline.'' Pallos noted that the number of Asian students has increased steadily, especially in the La Crescenta area. The number of Asian students ticked up over the past year from 12.86 percent to 13.15 percent; Filipinos This is a list of famous Filipinos See also List of Filipino Americans and Filipino Canadian National Figures
n. 1. A native or inhabitant of any of the Polynesian, Micronesian, or Melanesian islands of Oceania. 2. A person of Polynesian, Micronesian, or Melanesian descent. See Usage Note at Asian. , from 0.12 percent to 0.14 percent. The district will study these numbers during the next few years and as changes occur, it will take action. ``If we see an unexpected increase, then we know that we need to direct particular resources mainly into the reading and language program,'' Pallos said. |
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