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Area school enrollments down

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With the exception of Wayne, area school enrollmenºts are down compared to a year ago.

Wayne’s enrollment of 480 total students is up 11 over numbers from 2019 but Purcell, Washington and Lexington are all running a little lighter than a year ago.

Purcell is down 27 students, Washington is down 19 and Lexington is down 68 from last year.

Purcell had experienced fairly steady growth until a high of 1,446 students in 2016 and it has gone down slightly each year since.

The high point for Washington Schools was in 2017 when enrollment was at 1,051.

Lexington peaked out in 2014 when it had 1,153 on the roles.

The highest enrollment for Wayne was also in 2017 when 529 students were in school.

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