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Eleven Missouri Districts Where At Least Half of Students Were Chronically Absent
> Correction (September 19, 2026): An earlier version of this article said nine of Missouri's 560 districts had chronic absenteeism at or above 50% in 2024-25. The state attendance file it used carrie...
St. Louis City and Kansas City Both Remained Above 50% Chronic Absence
Correction (October 8, 2026): The reported rates and ranking have been independently rechecked against the retained state records. This version clarifies what the attendance measures mean and what the...
Six St. Louis-Area Districts Improved. Eight Still Exceed 39% Chronic Absence
> Correction (September 19, 2026): An earlier version of this article said Missouri's statewide chronic absenteeism rate was 17.1% in 2024-25 and that even the lowest rate among the eight districts wa...
KC Black Students Graduated at a Higher Rate Than St. Louis White Students in 2024-25
> Correction (October 8, 2026): The improvement ranking now follows stable district IDs across name changes, adding an eligible subgroup to the comparison. The leading result is unchanged. The rate-ba...
29% of Matched Missouri District Records Reached Their Earlier Enrollment
> Correction (October 8, 2026): This version matches districts by their native state identifiers across name changes. That adds previously split records to the comparison and revises the recovery coun...
Missouri’s White-Black Graduation Gap Fell Below Eight Points in 2024-25
> Correction (October 8, 2026): An earlier version called the Black graduation-rate gain the largest while reporting a larger multiracial gain. It also treated similar White and Hispanic endpoint gain...
Nearly Four in Ten Missouri Districts Hit All-Time High Graduation Rates
Missouri's graduation surge is not a story confined to a few high-profile districts. In 2025, 179 of the state's 455 districts posted their highest four-year graduation rate on record, a share of 39.3...
St. Louis City's Graduation Rate Stayed Near 70 Percent as Missouri's Reached 92.7
> Correction (September 19, 2026): An earlier version of this article said St. Louis City's Black students graduate 18 points below the statewide rate for Black students; the two rates it reported, 71...
Two Cities, Two Trajectories: Kansas City Surges Past St. Louis
In 2019, Kansas City 33 graduated 69.4 percent of its four-year cohort. St. Louis City graduated 71.7 percent. The two districts, Missouri's largest urban systems, were separated by 2.3 percentage poi...
Normandy’s Published Enrollment Fell 57.4% Across the Observed Window
> Correction (October 8, 2026): The district figures below have been independently reconciled to authenticated state enrollment files. The earlier series correction remains part of the article’s histo...
Kansas City’s Three Annual Enrollment Gains Ended With a Small Decline
> Correction (October 8, 2026): The supported district enrollment histories below have been reverified on authenticated state files. We have withdrawn exact statewide totals and statewide shares becau...
Missouri Hits an All-Time High: 92.7 Percent of Students Graduate on Time
Missouri graduated 92.7 percent of its four-year cohort in 2025, the highest rate in the state's history and roughly six percentage points above the most recently reported national four-year graduatio...
St. Louis City Schools: 62 Schools Reported Students
> Correction (October 8, 2026): This article’s district counts have been reverified on the state’s retained enrollment files. We have withdrawn the statewide enrollment shares and share-of-state-loss ...
Missouri District Enrollment Histories Show Losses and Growth
> Correction (October 8, 2026): We have withdrawn this article’s claim that statewide enrollment reached a historical minimum. The district enrollment files contain unavailable counts, and summing the...