Pittsfield
Ludlow's 18-Year Losing Streak Is the Longest in Massachusetts
Eighteen years. That is how long it has been since Ludlow Public Schools recorded a single year of enrollment growth. The western Massachusetts district enrolled 3,111 students in 2007-08, the last ye...
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...
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...