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Public school enrollment in Nova Scotia is rising again after a steep decline early in the COVID-19 pandemic and decades of steady decline.
New data released by the Department of Education shows that enrollment has increased in all regional education centres in the province this fall.
In most counties, the increase from fall 2021 to this fall has been modest, ranging from 1% to 3%, and in the provinces, the increase has been 3.2%.
This turnaround is somewhat surprising after 50 years of falling student numbers. The number of students in the province has steadily declined from more than 200,000 in the early 1970s to 129,121 this fall because of Nova Scotia's ageing population and declining birth rate.
The largest percentage increase in enrollment was at the Tri-County Regional Education Centre in the southwestern part of the province, up 6.1 per cent for the year.
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