Jefferson County R-1
Pueblo School District 60 hits 11 straight years of enrollment loss
Correction (October 8, 2026): This article now scopes its statewide streak comparison to complete histories in the original annual files. We removed an incorrect comparison of decline rates and unsupp...
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...
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...
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. ...
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 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...
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...