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22 Colorado Districts Stayed Below the State Average in All Six Years
Colorado's chronic absenteeism rate rose to 34.6% in 2021-22 before easing to 28.5% in 2024-25. Across that six-year panel, 22 districts stayed below the statewide rate every year. The comparison is l...
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...
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...
Six Named Denver-Area Districts Reach Lows in the Checked Annual Files
Correction: This article has been revised to use original annual enrollment files, define the districts included, and distinguish losses from different individual peaks from a common starting-year com...
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...
Colorado Enrollment Remains Below Its Pre-Pandemic Count
Correction: This article has been revised to use the original annual enrollment files and to distinguish being below an earlier count from never having returned to it. The earlier projected enrollment...
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’s 81 organizations at their lowest available enrollment
Correction: The historical comparisons now use the complete original annual membership files and require a continuous record under the same organization identifier. The earlier “all-time” and “half of...