MassINC is compiling a “bluebook” with Gateway City education trends.

Here are some key highlights from Chapter 1:

• One in four public school students in Massachusetts is enrolled in a Gateway City district
• Gateway City schools enroll more than one-half of the state’s English language learners and nearly half of all low income students in the Commonwealth
• Since education reform in 1993, the share of Gateway City students who are low income has grown by 20 percentage points
• The 3^rd grade reading score gap between Gateway City students and the state average has grown from 13 percentage points in 2003 to 15 percentage points in 2011