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Colorado has fewer public school pupils than it did at its peak
Every pupil in a Colorado public school, counted once each October — the state's own October count. The count rose for four decades and has fallen every year since the year the pandemic began.
PK-12 pupil membership (October count) — highest year published
913,223 FACT
2019-20 · Colorado Department of Education
The difference
−4.6% CALC
2025-26 · Colorado Department of Education
(870,793 − 913,223) ÷ 913,223 = −4.6%
Where these figures come from
- Colorado Department of Education — 2025-26 State Level PK-12 Membership Workbook (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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