Jefferson County R-1
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...
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...
District 27J adds 7,187 students as Denver's northern suburbs absorb the growth
Colorado lost nearly 18,000 public school students between 2014-15 and 2025-26. School District 27J gained 7,187.
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...
Half of Colorado's Districts Just Hit All-Time Lows
Jefferson County R-1 has closed 21 schools since 2021, cut 139 positions from next year's budget, and still cannot outrun the math. In 2025-26, the state's second-largest district enrolled 74,177 stud...
Jefferson County Has Lost 12,521 Students in 10 Years
Jefferson County R-1 enrolled 74,177 students this fall. A decade ago, it enrolled 86,698. The difference, 12,521 students, is nearly the size of the entire Pueblo City 60 school district. No other la...
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 ...