Greenwich
38 Connecticut Districts Never Had a Chronic Absenteeism Problem, Even During COVID's First Year
While headlines focus on the districts struggling most with chronic absenteeism, a quieter story runs beneath the data: 38 Connecticut districts stayed below the statewide average every single year fr...
Greenwich Virtually Eliminated Chronic Absenteeism — Then COVID Arrived
In a year when 78 Connecticut districts hit their worst-ever chronic absenteeism rates, Greenwich did the opposite. The district's 2020 chronic absence rate was 0.1% — essentially zero. One student in...
Fairfield Still Beats the State Average on Attendance -- but Its Rate Has Gotten Worse Every Year for Seven Straight
Fairfield School District sits in Fairfield County, one of the wealthiest counties in the United States. Median household income exceeds $120,000. The schools are well-funded, well-staffed, and well-r...
Four in Five CT Districts Never Recovered from COVID
Correction (April 18, 2026): An earlier version of this article described a 2024 enrollment "jump" of 18,643 students. That figure reflected a reporting artifact, not a real enrollment gain. The narra...
The 27.8-Point Gap: Hartford and Greenwich's Separate Attendance Realities
Greenwich reported a 0.1% chronic absenteeism rate in 2020 — one student in a thousand missing 10% or more of school days. Forty miles southwest on I-95, Hartford reported 27.9%. Nearly three in ten s...