New Britain
Connecticut's Graduation Gap Nearly Vanished
In 2015, a high-needs student in Connecticut was 9.4 percentage points less likely to graduate in four years than the average student. In 2025, the difference is 1.6 points.
New Britain's Two Graduation Stories
In 2022, New Britain graduated 78.7% of its students in four years, the highest rate in the available series. Two years later, it graduated 67.7%, the lowest rate since 2015. By 2025, the rate had par...
Hartford Graduates 79% — a Record That Raises Questions
In December 2024, Aleysha Ortiz filed a lawsuit against the Hartford Board of Education. She had graduated from Hartford Public High School earlier that year. She said she could not read or write. The...
Connecticut Graduates 89% — and Can't Get Higher
Before the pandemic, Connecticut's graduation rate moved in one direction. From 2014-15 through 2018-19, the four-year cohort rate climbed from 87.0% to 88.3%, gaining about a third of a percentage po...
White Students Fell Below 50% in 2020. The Gap Keeps Widening.
In 2011, nearly two out of three students in Connecticut's public schools were white. In 2020, the share crossed below 50% for the first time. Six years later, it stands at 44.7%, and the gap between ...
Waterbury's 5.5-Point Spike: The Largest Single-Year Jump Among Connecticut's Urban Districts
Waterbury School District's chronic absenteeism trajectory looks like a seismograph. The rate swings 2 to 5 percentage points between consecutive years with no stable equilibrium — 18.1%, then 19.8%, ...
One in Five Connecticut Students Now Receives Special Education
In 2010-11, roughly one in eight Connecticut public school students received special education services. By 2025-26, it is nearly one in five. The share has climbed from 12.0% to 19.1%, approaching a ...
Hartford's 28% Chronic Absence Was Already a Crisis Before COVID
In nine years of chronic absenteeism data, Hartford School District never achieved a rate below 22.1%. The best year, 2017, still meant more than one in five students missing 10% or more of school day...