The shrinkage from K is not unique among private and charter schools and is not always cherry-picking.
The shrinkage may be attributable to FL’s “free PreK” or the details of some other incentive plan ,, perhaps it’s something to do with normal attrition ,, low income families tend to move around more it seems and transportation might be an issue...
The two school that gets the others are in the same Somerset system. Wife, who recently retired from Fla school system (she says not a moment too soon- the schools are resolutely going down the drain) has had a lot to say good about the Somerset schools. They have scientists teaching science coursed rather than ED degrees who got a survey course in “science” in ED school. They are not “cherry picking,” rather they are teaching which strikes the System as being heretical.