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118 Minnesota Districts Stayed Below the State Chronic Absence Rate Across Four Reports

The corrected screen finds 118 Minnesota districts whose reported chronic absenteeism rates stayed below the state's in every report from 2020-21 through 2023-24. It requires at least 500 enrolled stu...

Hastings Has Not Grown in 19 Years

Correction (July 23, 2026): An earlier version said Hastings lost 580 students between 2012 and 2020 and that its 2020-21 loss of 113 was the second-largest single-year drop. The 2012-to-2020 loss was...

Five Years Later, Minnesota Is Still at the COVID Floor

Correction (July 23, 2026): An earlier version said no large district had returned to pre-pandemic enrollment, which its own examples contradicted. Eight of the state's 26 large districts, including W...