The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated racial disparities: while reading and math scores decreased for all racial and ethnic groups from 2020 to 2022, scores dropped the most for Black and Hispanic students. Creating healthy schools that specifically support students' and educators' health and well-being is a critical step in addressing these educational inequities. For students who struggle with hunger, health concerns, trauma, or social isolation, these foundational needs may take precedence over academic learning. Children and youth of color are disproportionately exposed to community and family conditions, discriminatory policies, and biased behaviors that threaten these core needs. Healthy schools proactively address students' basic needs and help create educational environments in which students are better able to focus on learning and teachers are better able to focus on teaching, thereby creating the foundation to reduce educational inequities. " This brief highlights six areas of education inequity linked to health and well-being that healthy schools are well-positioned to dismantle: (1) chronic absenteeism; (2) school violence; (3) school discipline; (4) special education; (5) school infrastructure; and (6) school staffing.