10/13/2026
Fairfax County Public Schools has seen a decline of 10,000 students enrolled. We're now down to a total of 172,000. The breakdown includes students from overseas:
Afghanistan: 2,932 students
Honduras: 2,859 students
El Salvador: 2,796 students
Bolivia: 1,857 students
When you lose 10,000 students, I wonder how many teachers have been fired?
Amazingly my property taxes, which funds this, is up 20% in the same time period. Something doesn't add up.
Fairfax County Public Schools leaders say they are making staffing adjustments in the wake of a year-over-year decline in student enrollment that seems to have caught them by surprise, though the downward trend isn't new. As a result, the school division will work to do better forecasting so there a...