Taunton
Black Enrollment Hits All-Time High as Diaspora Reshapes Gateway Cities
Massachusetts public schools enrolled 93,651 Black students in 2025-26, the highest number in the 33 years the state has tracked enrollment by race. The record came in a year when total enrollment fel...
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...