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Chronic absence is higher in Colorado than in the country

Chronically absent means missing at least a tenth of the school year. Both lines come from one federal collection, so they can share an axis. Colorado's own count is a different collection and reports a different figure for the same year, which is why the two are never mixed.

Chronic absenteeism rate (Colorado, EDFacts basis)
33.6% FACT
2022-23 · U.S. Department of Education, EDFacts / Ed Data Express
Chronic absenteeism rate (United States, EDFacts)
27.8% FACT
2022-23 · U.S. Department of Education, EDFacts / Ed Data Express
The difference
5.8 points CALC
2022-23 · U.S. Department of Education, EDFacts / Ed Data Express
33.6% − 27.8% = 5.8 points

The full comparison, and the two-publisher gap, on the Education page

Where these figures come from

Data as of 10 October 2026. Every figure here is read from the checked Colorado dataset when this page is built, so a correction to the data corrects this page. Nothing on it was typed by hand.

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Chronic absence is higher in Colorado than in the country — Chronic absenteeism rate (Colorado, EDFacts basis): 33.6%; Chronic absenteeism rate (United States, EDFacts): 27.8%.