I am not sure that I have the best gauge for how things are in the SE due to the shop I teach out of is a part time shop. You could almost (and I have) call it a boutique shop. We have always had small classes that very rarely exceed 4 people and a lot of times are 1-2. All of that being said upfront, we have seen the floodgates open with new students over the last 3 months. We have(had) more students in the last three months than we have had in the same time period or same time of year, by a wide margin. (about double)
We are not really sure what to attribute it to other than folks are tired of being indoors and still have a lot of their entertainment dollars that would have otherwise been spent on travel and other activities.