Tag: Graduation Rates
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Colorado graduation and dropout rates improve as student enrollment continues to slide
Colorado’s graduation and dropout rates continue to go up while its overall enrollment continues to go down, according to new data released Tuesday morning. The Colorado Department of Education released student graduation data from the 2024-25 school year, with the state’s four-year graduation rate increasing by 1.4 percentage points to 85.6% – the highest in…
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Colorado student enrollment continues to drop as graduation, dropout rates improve
Colorado’s public school enrollment continues to decline, according to new data released Tuesday morning. The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) reported a total of 870,793 pre-K-12th-grade students enrolled in Colorado schools, a decrease of 10,272 from fall 2024. “Colorado continues to experience enrollment trends shaped by a declining school-aged population, increasing racial and ethnic diversity, and…
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Colorado graduation and drop-out rates show improvements, but some gaps remain
Colorado students’ graduation rates slightly improved across the state, while dropout rates also declined. The graduation rates also increased for Denver’s school district, mirroring the statewide improvement. Data from the Colorado Department of Education on student graduation and dropout data from the 2023-24 school year showed that the four-year graduation rates improved by 1.1 points…
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Denver Public Schools improves graduation rate in 2022 while dropout rate bumps up
Emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, Denver Public Schools made small but symbolically significant gains with the school district increasing its four-year graduation rate by 2.5% last year. But that news was tempered with the dropout rate eking up 1.2%. The dropout rate last year in Denver was still better than 2019, which saw 4.5% of…