Fewer Massachusetts children than usual are attending public schools this year — but the homeschool student body may have doubled.
Statewide enrollment in Massachusetts public schools was down 3.9 percent from last year as of October 1, 2020, according to data provided to New Boston Post by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. On October 1, 2019, there were 948,828 students enrolled in 400 public school districts in Massachusetts. On October 1, 2020, that number was 911,432. That's a decrease of almost 4 percent.
