NEW YORK—The number of charter school students in New York City increased by almost 10,000 over the past year, according to a new report.
The city’s school district now has the second-highest number of students in charter schools in the nation. New York City has just under half the number of Los Angeles, which has close to 100,000 students, according to a report published earlier this week from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools measuring the 2011–2012 school year.
New York’s charter school students account for just 5 percent of the city’s 1.01 million students, a small number when compared to Los Angeles’ 15 percent, and third-ranking Detroit’s 41 percent.
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The total number of charter school students nationwide has risen above 2 million, up from about 1.5 million in the 2009–2010 school year.
The percentage of students in charter schools may rise in New York City in the future, to 10 percent by fall 2017, according to the New York City Charter School Center.
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