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Douglas County Is a Large-District Counterexample on Chronic Absenteeism
Douglas County RE-1 is a large-district counterexample. Colorado's third-largest district, with 60,681 students, posted a 16.6% chronic absenteeism rate in 2024-25, nearly 12 points below the state av...
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...
Black and Hispanic Graduation Rates Cross 80% as Colorado's Racial Gaps Narrow
Colorado's four-year graduation rates for Black and Hispanic students each rose 6.2 percentage points from 2019 to 2025, reaching 80.6% and 80.2%. The rate for White students rose 4.1 points to 90.0%....
Colorado's Graduation Rate for Students in Foster Care Rose 8.6 Points, but a 40.8-Point Gap Remains
Correction (Aug. 20, 2026): An earlier version omitted the state rows for English learners and students receiving free or reduced-price lunch from the subgroup comparison. The corrected comparison and...
102 Colorado District-Level Rates Fell as the State Rate Rose
Correction (July 21, 2026): The original article treated summed district counts as though they were the separately counted statewide total, said four districts had overwhelmed every improving district...
Denver LEP Chronic Absenteeism Surged 3 Points as ICE Fears Spread
Chronic absenteeism among Denver's Limited English Proficient students jumped from 41.1% to 44.2% in 2024-25, a 3.1 percentage point increase affecting 13,601 students. It was the sharpest worsening o...
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...
Most Colorado Native American Students Are in Class. Douglas County Shows the Rate Can Be Much Higher.
A majority of Colorado's Native American students attended class regularly in 2024-25. But just barely. Of the 5,090 Native American students enrolled statewide, 2,305 missed at least 10% of the schoo...
Colorado reported 17,485 more twelfth graders than kindergartners
Correction (October 8, 2026): Original annual files change the starting twelfth-grade count, several ratios and derived grade-band totals. This article now describes enrollment rather than graduates. ...
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...
Colorado's Attendance Recovery Just Reversed. The State's 2028 Goal Is Now Unreachable.
Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that Colorado had recovered 50.8% of the gap between peak and pre-COVID chronic absenteeism levels. The correct figure is 55.8%. The article has b...
Colorado’s Identified Charter Schools Added Fewer Students Last Year
Correction: This article has been revised to distinguish recent identified charter-school membership from incomplete historical classifications. The earlier decade-long sector comparison and claims ab...
Jefferson County lost 12,531 students across a decade of decline
Correction: The enrollment history and comparisons now use the complete original annual membership files. Several earlier totals and differences were incomplete. The earlier claim that future decline ...
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...