In 2020, students left schools nationwide in droves. A project between Stanford University, Big Local News, and the Associated Press (AP) worked together to figure out what happened to them.
. Locally collected data shows that mostly Black and low-income students left the New York City public school system in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic.
The data found that New York State had about 60,182 missing students ages 5 to 17, although the project posits that numbers could be much higher. The numbers get more granular when homing in on New York City, as do the reasons that certain groups of students seemingly fled the school system.
“Every year since 2016, we have seen a decline in district enrollment, but the decline appears to be reducing as we come out of the pandemic and establish efforts to increase enrollment. Over the last 15 years in New York City, we’ve also seen a falling birth rate, which has contributed to a drop in enrollment,” said the DOE.
“There’s a story that people tell when Black and brown kids leave the system that can be very different than the story folks will tell if white kids leave the system,” said Capers. “White students leave and they start their own pods, and that’s seen as a natural evolution of a failing system, versus Black and brown kids leave and go back to their home countries or to the South. In reality, people are just trying to take care of themselves.
“We didn’t see the dramatic decrease in enrollment we were expecting and then add on the buses of migrant children that were coming to our schools—about 12,000,” said Salas-Ramirez.
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