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Connecticut's Graduation Gap Nearly Vanished
Correction (July 21, 2026): An earlier version said Waterbury's high-needs advantage widened every year after 2022. It widened to 5.9 points in 2024, then narrowed to 5.1 points in 2025. The article a...
New Britain's Two Graduation Stories
Correction (July 21, 2026): The original article said approximately 23% of New Britain students received special education services and described their costs without a source that supported either cla...
Hartford's Four-Year Graduation Rate Reached 78.6%
Correction (July 21, 2026): The original article said Hartford's 4.6-point increase from 2023 to 2024 was the largest in the district dataset. It ranked 12th among 137 matched district changes. A char...
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...
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...
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...
Connecticut Lost 10,640 Students in a Single Year
Correction (April 18, 2026): An earlier version of this article described a 2024 enrollment gain of 18,643 students. That figure reflected a reporting artifact in the state's TOTAL enrollment row, not...
Connecticut's English Learners Nearly Doubled, Then Vanished
For 15 years, English learner enrollment was the one number in Connecticut that moved in the right direction. While the state shed 66,739 students between 2010-11 and 2025-26, a loss of 11.8%, its Eng...
One in Five Kindergartners Gone
Connecticut's 12th graders outnumber its kindergartners by nearly 10,000 students. In 2010-11, the two grades were roughly the same size. Fifteen years later, for every 100 seniors graduating out the ...
Hartford Lost One in Four Students, and Its #1 Ranking
Correction (July 26, 2026): An earlier version of this article drew its COVID-era figures from Connecticut's TOTAL enrollment row before that row was reconciled to the EdSight October enrollment censu...
Connecticut Falls Below 500,000 Students for First Time in a Generation
Correction (April 18, 2026): An earlier version of this article described a 2023-24 enrollment "spike" of 18,643 students. That figure reflected a reporting artifact in the state's TOTAL enrollment ro...