Arlington County students would sit in more crowded classrooms and pay higher activity fees as part of a $442 million schools budget introduced Tuesday.

That figure is about $3.5 million, or 1 percent, more than the current fiscal year’s budget. But it is meant to accommodate a more than 3 percent projected enrollment increase — from just more than 20,000 students this year to nearly 21,000 next fall.

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