The Jackson Public School District introduced a plan Tuesday night to close 16 schools due to declining enrollment.
The district lost about 8,500 students between the 2015-16 and 2022-23 school years, nearly a third of the district population. The district has previous consolidated schools multiple times. JPS Superintendent Errick Greene told the board this plan was brought forward to be good stewards of the resources the district receives, since the fewer students in a building, the more money it costs per student to operate the building.
Greene also said reducing central office staff will be among the next steps in “optimizing” the district. The school district’s student decline tracks with overall population declines in the city of Jackson. U.S. Census data released earlier this year shows that Jackson's population now stands at 145,995 — a drop of 3,766 from 2021 to 2022. That 2.5% year-over-year decline makes Jackson the fastest-shrinking city with at least 50,000 residents in the United States.
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