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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...
Half of Washington's Students Who Are Homeless Are Chronically Absent, and the Rate Has Stalled
> Correction (September 30, 2026): An earlier version of this article, headlined "Quillayute Valley Keeps 96% of Its Students Who Are Homeless in Class. Statewide, Half Are Chronically Absent.," held ...
Tacoma's Attendance Recovery Reversed: Chronic Absenteeism Jumped Back to 36%
> Correction (October 11, 2026): Washington's Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction republished its attendance files on September 30, 2026, with recalculated counts. In the restated data, Tac...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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%...