Planning and budgeting for the future is a tough job for law school administrators these days — and yet another major decline in the pool of law school admissions test-takers won’t make their task any easier.

The number of people who took the Law School Admission Test in October — traditionally the biggest cohort annually — dropped by 11 percent since last year, marking the fourth year of steady decline and intensifying worries that a turnaround in the demand for legal education remains out of sight.