Waterbury
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...
The 24-Point Gap That Shrank to 14
Correction (July 23, 2026): An earlier version said Hartford's graduation rate sat 14.7 points below Bloomfield's. The two rates, 78.6% and 83.3%, differ by 4.7 points; the figure has been corrected.
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%, ...
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...
Half of Connecticut Districts Hit All-Time High Chronic Absenteeism — Before the Real Crisis
The 2019-20 school year ended abruptly. Connecticut closed its schools in March 2020, cutting the academic calendar by roughly three months. Fewer school days should mean fewer chances to miss enough ...
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...