A line chart shows the percentage of U.S. 4-year-olds attending pre-k between 2014 and 2023.
A declining U.S. population of young children contributed to a rise in pre-K enrollment percentages, masking the fact that nearly 25,000 fewer children attended preschool in fall 2022 than in fall 2019.
Chart: Kara Arundel/K-12 DiveSource: NIEERGet the dataCreated with Datawrapper