CCSD Enrollment Declines By about 2000 Students

The Clark County School District, which is the 5th largest school district in the country lost about 2000 students between 2008 and 2009. In reality, this doesn't mean much because the district planned for this by staffing their buildings at 97% of capacity. Because of retirements and people leaving the district, there won't be any lay offs, but why the decline?
Obviously, with an unemployment rate of about 14%, many people who recently moved here have moved back home to where they came from. That means a family from Wisconsin may have moved back to Wisconsin and an illegal immigrant from Mexico moved back to Mexico. The other reason is construction workers are transient and there are hardly any construction jobs in the Valley, they are moving to where the construction jobs are located.
Fortunately, CCSD planned for this and there will be few disruptions, other than the ones that happen on leveling day. Leveling day happens throughout the district, where schools who fall beneath projections lose teachers, administration and support staff and those who exceed projections get additional employees. It is a tradition in the CCSD that the classes you start at as student are not necessarily the one's you end up with 4 weeks later. Gotta love tradition, but CCSD does do a good job and there really isn't too much turmoil.