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Poudre R-1 Posted Colorado's Biggest Large-District Drop in Chronic Absenteeism
Correction: An earlier version of this article misnamed one subgroup measure. The 51.1% and 47.3% rates are for students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, and the text and subgroup chart now s...
Denver Worsened While Aurora Quietly Improved: A Tale of Two Urban Districts
Denver and Aurora sit side by side on the Front Range, Colorado's two largest high-poverty urban districts. Both surged past 43% chronic absenteeism during the pandemic. Both appeared to be recovering...
Only 19 of 93 Colorado Districts Have Recovered to Pre-COVID Absence Levels
Five years after COVID-19 disrupted attendance patterns across Colorado, only 19 of 93 measurable districts have chronic absenteeism rates at or below where they stood in 2019-20. That is a 20.4% reco...
Three in Four Denver Homeless Students Are Chronically Absent
Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the Denver homeless student counts. Of roughly 1,307 students who are currently homeless in the data, 996 were chronically absent, rather than ...
Colorado Springs D11: From 29% to 46% Chronic Absenteeism in a Single Year
Something happened in Colorado Springs District 11 last year that no other large Colorado district experienced. The chronic absenteeism rate nearly doubled, jumping from 29.2% in 2023-24 to 45.8% in 2...
White Kindergartners Down 21% in a Decade
Colorado's kindergarten classrooms in 2025-26 look nothing like they did a decade ago. White kindergartners numbered 27,385 in the October 2025 count, down 7,400 from 34,785 in 2016. That is a 21.3% d...
Colorado enrollment reaches its lowest count in the available annual files
Correction: Historical totals and comparisons now use the complete original annual membership files. The earlier account mixed incomplete totals with unsupported explanations for the decline. The hist...