Seattle
Seattle's Graduation Rate Rose 10.5 Points, Then Fell for Two Years
> Correction (October 11, 2026): An earlier version of this article said Washington published no 2022 graduation report because of a federal waiver. The state did publish results for the Class of 2022...
Washington's Hispanic Graduation Gap Reverses Course
> Correction (October 11, 2026): An earlier version of this article left out the Class of 2022, which was not in the data we analyzed at the time and is now published. With it included, the white-Hisp...
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...
The Poverty-Attendance Gap Widened by 4 Points in Washington
> Correction (September 30, 2026): An earlier version of this article said Quillayute Valley had the lowest chronic absenteeism rate for low-income students in Washington, 4.2% among 3,348 students. T...
Seattle's 20-Point Attendance Divide: White Students at 17%, Black Students at 35%
By the statewide average, Seattle Public Schools looks like a relative success. Its overall chronic absenteeism rate of 23.4% in 2024-25 is 3.7 points below the state average of 27.1%. It is the large...
Native American Enrollment Cut in Half
> 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 enrolled 12,489 Native A...
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...
Lake Washington Added 7,125 Students. No Other District Came Close.
The sixth-largest school district in Washington in 2010, Lake Washington enrolled 23,531 students that year. By 2026, it had 30,656, an increase of 7,125 students, or 30.3%. No other district in the s...
Gender X Grew 6,300% in Washington Schools, Then the Count Reversed
> 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 counted 4,013 Gender X s...
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...
Six Years Later, 63% of Washington Districts Haven't Recovered
> 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 lost 7,165 students in 2...
141,000 Fewer White Students in 16 Years
> 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 lost 140,743 white stude...
Seattle Spent a Decade Building. Six Years Erased It.
> 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. Seattle enrolled 50,948 students in...
Washington Lost 7,165 Students and Half Its Three-Year Recovery
> 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 lost 7,165 students in 2...
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%...
Washington Publishes 2025-26 Enrollment Data
> 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 2025-26 statewide total is 1,09...