On Friday the D.C. Public Schools quietly released their audited enrollment figured for the 2008-09 academic year, and it shows that there are 45,190 students left in the system, down 8.5 percent from last year’s 49,422. This news comes via the Post’s Bill Turque, who says he found the report posted on the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education’s web site (we can’t actually find it available here) on Friday. Normally, the annual public school enrollment audit is released with a formal announcement.