A 35 percent increase in total enrollment in the Dade County Public Schools is projected for the year 2000. The projections are based on population projections developed by the Metro-Dade County Planning Department for the county's continuing urban development and growth management programs. Dade County Public Schools in cooperation with Metro-Dade Planning has developed detailed sets of population projections by age and by race and ethnic origin through the year 2000. Future student enrollment is determined when these data are combined with age- and race-specific enrollment ratios. Findings include the following: (1) the pace of growth will peak in the first half of the 1990s, and will diminish in the latter half of that decade; (2) rapid growth in enrollment will be experienced at all grade levels, but especially at the elementary grade levels; (3) the racial and ethnic profile of the student membership will change gradually; (4) students of Hispanic origin will increase most rapidly and their share will edge up from the current 41 percent to about 46 percent; (5) Black students will account for about 29 percent of the total, down slightly from their current 33 percent; (6) White and other non-Hispanic students will account for an essentially unchanged 25 percent of the total; and (7) all administrative areas will experience an increase in student enrollment, but growth in the two Southern areas, particularly in the South Central Area, will be most rapid. Statistical data are included in 10 tables, five graphs, and two appendices. (FMW)