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Fifty-Seven Washington Districts Cut Chronic Absence Every Year Since the 2022 Peak
> Correction (October 11, 2026): Washington's state education agency republished its attendance data on September 30, 2026, with recalculated counts for every year, and this article now reflects that ...
74,636 Graduates, and It Still Wasn't Enough
Washington state handed diplomas to 74,636 seniors in the Class of 2025. It was the most on-time graduates the state has ever produced, topping the previous year's record by more than 2,100. And yet t...
Three Decades to the Top: Jill Burnes Takes the Helm in Enumclaw
Correction (September 26, 2026): An earlier version of this article quoted Superintendent Jill Burnes's statement on the Ten Trails facilities partnership with a shortened sentence. Her full statement...
1 in 17 Washington Students Now Has a 504 Plan
> Correction (October 11, 2026): OSPI revised its published 2025-26 enrollment file after this article ran, and the revised file reverses one of its findings. Section 504 plans did not fall by 6,440 i...
1 in 25 Washington Students Was Homeless Last Year
> Correction (October 11, 2026): OSPI revised its published 2025-26 enrollment file after this article ran, and the revised file changes this story's central finding. Washington counted 39,978 student...
1 in 7 Washington Students Is Now an English Learner
> Correction (October 11, 2026): OSPI revised its published 2025-26 enrollment file after this article ran, and we have restated every figure from the revised data. Washington had 165,537 English lear...
White Students Now 47% of Washington's Schools
> Correction (October 11, 2026): OSPI revised its published 2025-26 enrollment file after this article ran, and we have restated every figure from the revised data. The white share in 2025-26 is 47.0%...