Enrollment in South Whidbey’s public schools has taken a dip this year.

In May, at the end of the last school year, there were 1,456 students. As of September, the first month of classes in the South Whidbey School District, there are 1,407.

South Whidbey’s by school breakdown is: 511 at the high school, 65 at the South Whidbey Academy, 324 at Langley Middle School and 507 at the elementary school.