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White Students at 50.8%, One Year from Minority
In 1994, four out of five students in Massachusetts public schools were white. In 2026, the number is barely half. White enrollment stands at 50.8% of the state's 900,490 students, a margin so thin th...
Boston Hits All-Time Low, Down 30% in Three Decades
In 2025, Boston Public Schools gained 352 students. It was the district's first year of growth since 2015, a small green bar in a decade of red. Superintendent Mary Skipper had reason to believe the w...
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...