OCEAN CITY — The city’s year-round population is getting older, a demographic study presented to the Board of Education recently found, with a median age over 57 in the most recent census.

Everybody gets older, right? But the study presented by Richard Grip of Statistical Forecasting LLC indicates people in Ocean City are aging in place, and few young families are moving to the community, where statistics show the year-round population declining and housing prices climbing.

That’s going to mean fewer students in the district in the future, and right now the city’s three schools are already operating below their capacity.

“When you have an older community, guess what? You don’t have that many kids in the school district,” Grip said. His presentation did not take place at a school board m

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