Enrollment in 2024-25 School Year: 305 students welcomed in Jefferson Intermediate School

There were 305 students enrolled in Jefferson Intermediate School during the 2024-25 school year, 53.3% more than the previous year's 199 students welcomed, according to the Colorado Department of Education.

Among the student body, 50.2% were girls and 49.8% were boys.

Data also showed that most of the students were Hispanic or Latino (228), representing 74.8% of the Jefferson Intermediate School total enrollment. White students comprised the second-largest ethnic group, with 73 students (23.9%).

The grade level with the highest enrollment was third grade, with 58 students enrolled that year, accounting for 19% of the total student body.

The school is located in Rocky Ford School District No. R2, and has a central office in Rocky Ford.

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
Jefferson Intermediate School	305
Rocky Ford Junior/Senior High School	271