Danbury
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%, ...
CREC Doubled While Hartford Emptied
In 2011, Hartford enrolled 21,365 students, more than any other district in Connecticut. The Capitol Region Education Council, which operates interdistrict magnet schools across the Hartford area unde...
Danbury Grew 7% While Connecticut Shrank
Connecticut lost 66,739 students between 2010-11 and 2025-26, an 11.8% decline that touched 163 of the state's 184 districts. Danbury gained 756.
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...
Connecticut Lost 124,518 White Students in 15 Years
In 2010-11, three out of five students in Connecticut public schools were white. Fifteen years later, white students are a minority. The state lost 124,518 white students over that span, a 35.9% decli...
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...