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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
Where these figures come from
- U.S. Department of Education, EDFacts / Ed Data Express — Chronic Absenteeism, school year 2022-23 — state-level percentage file (SY2223_DG814PCT_SEA_082724.csv) (opens in a new tab)
Data as of 10 September 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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