Despite a return to full in-person learning, but amid a mask-mandate, Palm Beach County's public school enrollment remains at least 6,300 short of the high-mark set pre-pandemic. The true hit came in the fall of 2020, when thousands of students first fell off the district rolls. But another year in the rearview appears to have done little to reclaim lost ground, according to a headcount taken for the state this month. In fact, when counting only the district's traditional elementary, middle and high schools, including preschoolers, enrollment fell by 518 students to 166,079. All told, the district's full enrollment, including charters, rose to 191,798, a gain of 644 over the prior year but still 6,335 short of the historic peak in the fall of 2019.