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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...
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...
55 Washington Districts Hit All-Time Lows
> 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. Fifty-five districts were at all-ti...
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...