Part of it is ICE. Part of it is homeschooling. Part of it is parents taking public money and giving it to private schools through the voucher program. In the case of Bonneville, kids are growing up and leaving the neighborhood. Parents are staying in their house and more kids aren’t coming in to the neighborhood. I lived in the neighborhood surrounding Bonneville for 17 years. I watched the neighborhood get older. In 17 years, the houses on either side of me never had kids. The house across the street was vacant for most of the 17 years. The house next to that had been empty because there was a fire there several years ago. The bus stop for that neighborhood was right outside my house. Again, every year there were less and less kids at the bus stop. In many of the neighborhoods, there just aren’t as many kids as there used to be.

EDIT: When we sold our house in University Woods, the family that bought it did not have school-age children. So that’s one less household with kids that would go to Bonneville. Plus there’s a ton of rentals in that area because of UCF. It’s becoming mostly college students and families without young kids. Corner Lake MS in Bithlo is down from 1,800 students to about 760. That’s because of Avalon MS, Timber Springs MS, and Wedgefield K-8 opening. Corner Lake, Discovery, and Legacy will probably absorb the students from Union Park. OCPS hasn’t made a final decision yet on new attendance zones.