Madeleine Saito 7/30/26 Madeleine Saito 7/30/26

Massachusetts School Enrollment Dashboard

This interactive dashboard examines the gap between the predicted and actual enrollment in Massachusetts public, private, charter, and home schools.

Sidrah Baloch 6/12/25 Sidrah Baloch 6/12/25

School Enrollment Shifts Five Years After the Pandemic

This research documents the changes in public school enrollment in one state and highlights shifts that may have broader implications for American schools.

Sidrah Baloch 8/2/23 Sidrah Baloch 8/2/23

The Stickiness of Pandemic-Driven Disenrollment from Public Schools

Using data from Michigan and nationally representative data, authors show how the pandemic affected families’ choices of school sector.

Sidrah Baloch 6/7/22 Sidrah Baloch 6/7/22

Enrollment Flexibility and Charter School Impacts: The Effect of Backfill on Students in Massachusetts Charter Middle Schools

This study leverages Massachusetts’s adoption of a statewide requirement for charter schools to backfill vacancies within some grades to provide the first causal estimates for the effect of incorporating new students on the performance of incumbent charter school pupils. Using data from the universe of Massachusetts public school students enrolled in Grades 5 through 8 from 2007-2008 to 2013-2014, this study compares changes in student achievement in impacted vs. not-impacted grades within Boston charter schools to the patterns of student achievement within traditional public schools and charter schools outside of Boston.