Public school enrollment across Massachusetts has been undergoing a broad downturn. The state’s eight largest districts, including Springfield and Worcester, have experienced this decline.
The Boston Globe reported that Massachusetts public schools have shed more than 15,000 students from 2024 to 2025. That’s the overall enrollment at its lowest level in three decades, according to official Oct. 1 records released by the state on Thursday, Jan. 8.
Many of the state’s largest school districts and centers of immigrant populations witnessed especially significant declines, amid the ramifications of President Trump’s immigration policies within the state. Chelsea, Everett, Framingham, and Marlborough have all experienced enrollment declines of more than 5%…