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Rochester Has Declined 17 Straight Years
In 22 years of New York State enrollment data, Rochester has grown exactly twice: once in 2006, by 238 students, and once in 2009, by 49. Every other year the district shrank. Since that last blip of ...
475 New York Districts at All-Time Lows
In a typical year, a few dozen New York school districts touch their lowest enrollment on record. In 2026, 475 did.
One in Six NYC Students Now Attends a Charter School
In 2005, New York's 61 charter schools enrolled 18,414 students, a rounding error in a system of 2.8 million. Twenty-one years later, 349 charter schools serve 190,105 students, 7.8% of the state's pu...