Youngstown City Schools
Nine Ohio Districts Had Chronic-Absence Rates Above 50%
> Correction (July 21, 2026): The earlier headline incorrectly equated a chronic-absence classification with being absent more often than present. The article also presented rate-times-enrollment esti...
Ohio Lost 19,611 Students in 2025, the Biggest Non-COVID Drop
In 2024-25, 96 Ohio districts sat at their lowest enrollment on record. One year later, the number is 391.
Ohio's Kindergarten Class Hits a Record Low
Correction (April 12, 2026): This article originally described the 2025-26 total enrollment loss of 19,611 as "the largest single-year decline in the dataset." The 2020-21 pandemic year saw a larger d...