The Impact of the Baby Boom Echo on U.S. Public School Enrollments
NCES
Author(s):
John Bare (ESSI)
Publication date:
October 1997
Publication number:
NCES 98039
Summary
The children of the Baby Boom generation have set off a population explosion in the nation's public schools. This dramatic enrollment growth, known as the Baby Boom echo, began in the nation's elementary schools in 1984, and elementary enrollment has increased annually since then.
