Chicopee
One in Four Massachusetts Districts at All-Time Enrollment Lows
North Adams peaked at 2,368 students in 1997. This fall, it enrolled 1,064. Hull has lost 55.5% of its students from peak. Sandwich has crossed below half its former size. These are not anomalies. In ...
Four Years of Recovery, Gone in One
Massachusetts spent four years clawing back from the pandemic. The state added 4,467 students between 2021 and 2025, a recovery so slow it barely registered against a loss of 37,363. Then 2025-26 arri...