"Dwindling enrollment" refers to a declining number of students or participants in a particular institution or program. It means that fewer and fewer people are joining or attending, resulting in a smaller population or group. Full definition
The playing field to compete for students is not level, and nobody in the mayor's office or DOE is taking responsibility for it, preferring to leverage dwindling enrollments by school mergers, closures, and truncations without looking at key underlying problems. (gothamgazette.com)
Indiana's new voucher program that provides state - funded scholarships to private schools, the nation's broadest, is proving to be a boon for Roman Catholic schools that nationwide have been struggling against dwindling enrollment numbers for years. (urban.org)
Pauline Lipman, a professor of education policy studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said schools with dwindling enrollment get trapped in a cycle. (chicagotribune.com)