LaGuardia High School is squandering its legacy of artistic glory, critics say — and kids are voting with their feet.
Over the last decade, applications to the world-famous “Fame school” plummeted by 73 percent, from more than 15,000 in 2012 to less than 5,000 in 2019 and 2020, as competition for seats in other top-ranked high schools held steady.
LaGuardia’s enrollment dropped by 19% between 2019 and 2021 — the only one of the city’s nine elite specialized high schools to lose students during the pandemic shutdown. The decline triggered a $1.25 million cash infusion from the Department of Education to paper over a yawning budget gap.
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