After months of asking San Diego Unified officials how many students each district run-school can serve, they finally came back with an answer – they don’t know.

Let me rewind.

Over the past decade, San Diego County schools have lost tens of thousands of students to declining birth rates and the region’s high cost of living. San Diego Unified alone lost nearly 14,000, an about 13 percent decline.

Earlier this year, I wrote a series of stories that explored just how impactful those declines have been and will likely continue to be. State officials project that the declines will continue decades into the future, leaving already shrunken schools smaller still.

As I was working on those stories, I kept asking myself one question: how many San Diego Unified schools are underenrolled?

It’s

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