As the nation celebrates National School Choice Week, the school choice movement is on the cusp of hitting a major milestone. By the end of 2025, it is likely that more than half of K-12 students nationwide will be eligible for private school choice.
In the past five years, the number of students benefitting from school choice has more than doubled. In 2020, fewer than 600,000 children nationwide were accessing the learning environment of their family’s choice using a K-12 education savings account, tax credit scholarship, or school voucher. Now there are about 1.2 million K-12 students benefiting from school choice.
Source: EdChoice, “ABCs of School Choice: 2025 Edition”
Much of this enrollment growth has been driven by the recent rise in universal school choice policies, which make every K-12 student in the state eligible. In the past five years, the number…
