Enrollment in 2024-25 School Year: 298 students welcomed in Telluride High School

There were 298 students enrolled in Telluride High School during the 2024-25 school year, 1.7% less than the previous year's 303 students welcomed, according to the Colorado Department of Education.

Among the student body, 51% were boys and 49% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were white (231), representing 77.5% of the Telluride High School total enrollment. Hispanic or latino students comprised the second-largest ethnic group, with 61 students (20.5%).

The grade level with the highest enrollment was twelfth grade, with 91 students enrolled that year, accounting for 30.5% of the total student body.

The school is located in Telluride School District No. R-1, and has a central office in Telluride.

In total, there were 881,065 students enrolled in Colorado during the 2024-25 school year.

Colorado’s K–12 enrollment has gradually declined each year since the pandemic, with about 3–4% fewer students in 2024 than the state’s peak enrollment in 2019.

The declines are concentrated in the early grades and certain rural areas, while some metro districts are holding steady or growing. Lower birth rates and pandemic disruptions are driving the trend. Colorado’s public schools are now serving the smallest number of students in a decade, a shift that has implications for funding and planning even as per-pupil resources increase to compensate.

Colorado’s teacher workforce faces persistent shortages and pay challenges. In the 2023–24 school year, nearly 7,000 teaching positions were vacant statewide at some point. Districts managed to fill only about 75% of those openings with fully qualified hires, leaving many to be filled by short-term substitutes, retirees, or emergency credentials for the rest, while 9% remained unfilled for the entire school year.

School	Total Enrollment
Telluride High School	298
Telluride Intermediate School	237
Telluride Elementary School	140
Telluride Middle School	124