More South Bend students are choosing schools outside the district: Here's where they're going

New data released last week from the Indiana Department of Education details the number of students enrolled in pre-kindergarten through adult education classes in schools across Indiana.

It also shows the number of students attending schools within assigned district boundaries and where students transfer to when they decide to go somewhere else.

The data, dating back nine semesters, shows more South Bend residents are choosing to transfer to other public or private schools.

This comes as the South Bend district, in the midst of enrollment declines for years, weighs plans for possible middle and high school reconfiguration, and after the corporation closed two elementary schools last summer.  

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