A recent report by the Massachusetts Racial Imbalance Advisory Council reveals that 60% of public school students in the state attend racially segregated schools. Among the quarter of students enrolled in predominantly non-white schools, over 225,000 are Black and Latino.
Based on 2024 state data, the analysis shows that students in “intensely segregated” schools, where over 90% of students are non-white, have lower high school graduation and college attendance rates, as well as poorer performance in math, English Language Arts, and SAT scores.