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Meanwhile, the number of students engaged in homeschooling decreased by more than 1,800 from last year — down to 8,674 kids total, according to state gures. About 30,800 students enrolled in online educational programs this school year, close to 600 students less than the prior year.

“We knew this was coming” Denver Public Schools — Colorado’s largest school district — shrunk by just over 1,000 students this school year, dropping to an enrollment of 87,864 students in preschool through 12th grade, state data shows.

e district’s projections anticipated the decline, so it wasn’t a surprise to DPS, said Liz Mendez, executive director of enrollment and campus planning for the district.

“We knew this was coming, and it has been for the last six years,” Mendez said.

Kindergarten enrollment has consistently dwindled in DPS, she added, with the district hitting its peak enrollment in preschool through 12th grade in 2019. Since then, enrollment has continued to decline.

“It is not due to the pandemic,” Mendez said. “ e pandemic accelerated our declines for a year, but we have been seeing elementary school totals decline since 2014.” at was the district’s peak year for elementary school enrollment, which has dropped steadily in the years since, she said. As smaller kindergarten classes moved through the school system, they began to hit middle school in 2020. DPS recorded its largest enrollment for middle school students in 2019, and enrollment began to wane afterward. e changes to DPS enrollment will likely trigger some adjustments to sta ng — both at individual schools and the district’s central o ce, which already eliminated dozens of positions last year, Chalkbeat Colorado reported. e district’s budget and school budgets will also be a ected by the decrease in students, she noted, while schools may have to re-evaluate the number and kinds of extracurriculars and programs they can o er for students. is story is from e Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support e Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. e Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.

Mendez anticipates that the enrollment dips will continue in the foreseeable future, with a variety of factors in uencing student counts besides lower birth rates. She pointed to changing demographics, with more young couples and young, single people moving into Denver, pricing families out. Meanwhile, the housing market is also in uencing enrollment gures as more people, including retirees, are remaining in their homes and “aging in place.” Whereas older residents might traditionally consider downsizing, the mortgage rate and availability of homes deters them from moving, so they stay put.

“It is probably mostly at the individual school level where schools are having to make adjustments as their enrollment declines because as we know, there are many schools in DPS that have struggled with signi cantly declining enrollment,” Mendez said.

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