Rochester
19 Districts Haven't Grown in 14 Years
Rochester lost 1,221 students in 2013. Then 270 in 2014. Then 581 more. Every year since, without exception, the district has shed students: 14 consecutive years of decline totaling 10,146 students, a...
Only 14% of New York Districts Have Recovered From COVID
Correction (April 12, 2026): An earlier version of this article understated NYC District 75's share of statewide enrollment as less than 0.2%; the correct figure is about 1.2%. It also overstated the ...
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.
New York's Kindergarten Class Hit Its Lowest Level in 22 Years
The children who will shape New York's schools for the next 12 years are already here, and there are fewer of them than at any point in two decades.
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...