This metro-area school has already been closed, and more could follow. Here's why.
superintendent Dr. Alex Marrero announced plans to grapple with what DPS media relations manager Scott Pribble said was"an anticipated 6 percent decline in enrollment over the next five years." A group of parents, teachers, staffers and community partners dubbed the Declining Enrollment Advisory Committee is currently looking at options, although Pribble stressed that"any school selected for closure would not close until the end of the 2023-2024 school year.
At last night's Jeffco board of education meeting, the subject was explored in a slide show with a title intended to dial down potential panic over the situation:"." But the numbers and graphics unveiled revealed plenty of reasons for concern. According to the presentation, Jefferson County Public Schools is Colorado's second-largest school district , serving 8 percent of all K-12 students in the state at 155 schools on 168 campuses. However, Colorado as a whole saw a decline of 30,000 students at K-12 schools after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and figures from theindicate that Jeffco was the hardest hit locale, losing more than 5,000 students from 2019 to 2022.
Right now, Jeffco has the"capacity to serve 96,000 students in traditional district-managed schools," one slide notes,"and we currently serve 69,000 students in these schools."Enrollment figures for the 2021-22 academic year are particularly worrisome. While Jefferson County could have provided education for 39,900 K-5 students in 85 traditional elementary schools over that span, only 25,600 were enrolled.
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