Colorado Springs 11
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...
Native American Enrollment Falls 22% in Colorado, Steepest of Any Group
In a state named for its river by Spanish explorers and built on the ancestral lands of the Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapaho peoples, the number of Native American students enrolled in public schools has fa...
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...
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 ...
Colorado Hits All-Time Low as 10,000 Students Vanish
For five years, Colorado's enrollment decline looked manageable. The state lost 29,762 students during COVID's first year, clawed back 3,369 the next, then settled into a slow bleed of 1,000 to 3,000 ...