Montgomery County’s public schools are seeing a drop in student enrollment, a development the Maryland school system’s superintendent, Thomas Taylor, called “significant.”

“We’ve seen a sharp decrease in student enrollment,” Taylor explained in a Monday night presentation at the Montgomery County Board of Education offices. “We are down 2,600 students from last year.”

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Currently, there are 156,541 students enrolled in Montgomery County Public Schools.

“Our international enrollments are also sharply down,” Taylor said.

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