Lawrence
Hispanic Enrollment Dips for Only the Second Time in 33 Years
For 30 of the past 32 years, Hispanic enrollment in Massachusetts grew. It grew through recessions and recoveries, through three governors and two presidents, through the post-9/11 years and the Great...
After Three Decades of Growth, LEP Enrollment Falls by 6,889 in a Single Year
For 30 years, the trajectory pointed in one direction. Massachusetts public schools enrolled 43,690 students classified as limited English proficient in 1994. By 2025, that number had nearly tripled t...
Framingham Lost Nearly Half Its White Students in 11 Years
In 2015, six out of 10 students in Framingham Public Schools were white. In 2026, fewer than one in three are. The 28.7 percentage-point collapse in white enrollment share is the largest of any Massac...
One in 19 Massachusetts Students Now Attends a Charter School
The pandemic was supposed to be the great equalizer: every school in Massachusetts closed, every family improvised, every district lost students. It was not. Between 2019 and 2021, traditional public ...
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...