District 49
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...
District 49's Graduation Rate Rose 14.7 Points. Its School Mix Complicates Comparisons
District 49 raised its four-year graduation rate from 48.8% in 2019 to 63.5% in 2025. The 14.7-point gain came while its adjusted cohort grew by 1,185 students, or 48.0%, to 3,653.
One in 18 Colorado Students Now Identifies as Multiracial
Every racial category in Colorado's public schools either shrank or barely held steady over the past decade. Every category except one.
Six Suburban Giants All Hit Record Lows
The six largest suburban districts ringing Denver educate nearly one in three Colorado public school students. In 2025-26, every single one recorded its lowest enrollment on file.
Colorado's Charter Sector Hits a Wall at 16%
For a decade, Colorado's charter schools were the one part of public education that kept growing. While traditional schools shed students year after year, charters added 50,676, pushing their share fr...
Three in Four Colorado Districts Never Recovered from COVID
Five years after the pandemic emptied classrooms across the Front Range, Jefferson County R-1 has 9,855 fewer students than it did in 2019-20. Douglas County Re 1 is down 5,770. Adams 12 Five Star Sch...
28,000 Students, No Buildings
Colorado Springs 11 is the state's 13th largest school district. It operates 60 schools across the state's second-largest city. Education reEnvisioned BOCES, by contrast, has no attendance boundaries ...