Schools
Colorado funds each pupil more than it used to
This is the state formula amount: Total Program funding divided by the funded pupil count. An appropriation is money set aside, so this is what the state committed, not what a classroom received.
Average per-pupil funding (Total Program) — earliest year published
$8,489 FACT
FY 2019-20 · Legislative Council Staff
The difference
+39.7% CALC
FY 2025-26 · Legislative Council Staff
($11,858 − $8,489) ÷ $8,489 = +39.7%
The measure changed part-way through this series. HB24-1448 new school funding formula phases in FY 2025-26 through 2031-32; per-pupil funding figures change meaning mid-stream by design.
Where these figures come from
- Legislative Council Staff — Financing Public Schools for FY 2025-26 (memo, 29-Jul-2025) (opens in a new tab)
- Legislative Council Staff — Financing of Public Schools — annual memo archive (FY 2019-20 through FY 2023-24) (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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