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But in the fall, it was a different story. When many public schools decided to keep students learning from home through the fall, some families jumped ship. They went to private religious schools that sold themselves as the “in-person option.” Peter Held is the principal at Rockford Christian High School.
“We ve gotten a number of students from a variety of different local schools because they really need in-person education,” he said.
In the fall, Rockford Christian, like 60% of independent private schools, was in-person. Only 5% of private schools were fully online.
Now their enrollment is up, more than making up for the losses of early in the pandemic.