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Private and home school enrollment on the rise in North Carolina

New statewide reports show students are increasingly attending non-public schools in North Carolina. 

In the last academic year, nearly 158,000 students across the state were homeschooled — up 3% from the year before. There was a similar rise in private school enrollment, accounting for more than 131,000 students in the state. 

In Guilford County specifically, the enrollment increases for non-public options were slightly higher, around 5%. Last year, nearly 7,200 students in the area attended private schools and 5,000 were homeschooled. 

The changes were more varied in Forsyth County. Private enrollment was down a handful of students, but still roughly the same as the year before, around 5,700. 

The home school numbers, on the other hand, jumped by 8% for a total of about 5,500 students. 

Amy Diaz covers education for WFDD in partnership with Report For America. You can follow her on Twitter at @amydiaze.

Amy Diaz began covering education in North Carolina’s Piedmont region and High Country for WFDD in partnership with Report For America in 2022. Before entering the world of public radio, she worked as a local government reporter in Flint, Mich. where she was named the 2021 Rookie Writer of the Year by the Michigan Press Association. Diaz is originally from Florida, where she interned at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and freelanced for the Tampa Bay Times. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of South Florida, but truly got her start in the field in elementary school writing scripts for the morning news. You can follow her on Twitter at @amydiaze.

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