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Ridgeview Classical Schools recorded 12 fewer students enrolled in 2024-25 school year than previous school year

Published 06/11/25

There were 723 students enrolled in Ridgeview Classical Schools during the 2024-25 school year, 1.6% less than the previous year's 735 students welcomed, according to the Colorado Department of Education.

Among the student body, 53.1% were girls and 46.9% were boys.

Data also showed that most of the students were white (602), representing 83.3% of the Ridgeview Classical Schools total enrollment. Hispanic or latino students comprised the second-largest ethnic group, with 50 students (6.9%).

The grade level with the highest enrollment was sixth grade, with 89 students enrolled that year, accounting for 12.3% of the total student body.

The school is located in Poudre School District R-1, and has a central office in Fort Collins.

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.

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School Enrollment Breakdown in Poudre School District R-1 in 2024-25 School Year
SchoolTotal Enrollment
Rocky Mountain High School2,044
Fossil Ridge High School1,846
Fort Collins High School1,837
Liberty Common Charter School1,516
Poudre High School1,409
Wellington Middle School1,177
Lesher Middle School766
Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School762
Webber Middle School729
Ridgeview Classical Schools723
Eyestone Elementary School619
Preston Middle School568
Lincoln Middle School552
Boltz Middle School551
Tavelli Elementary School519
Bethke Elementary School512
Zach Elementary School492
Traut Core Elementary School484
Timnath Elementary School455
Riffenburgh Elementary School443
Bauder Elementary School423
Shepardson Elementary School414
Laurel Elementary School412
Kruse Elementary School406
Polaris Expeditionary Learning School406
Rice Elementary School401
O'Dea Elementary School398
Bacon Elementary School397
Dunn Elementary School392
Werner Elementary School374
Irish Elementary School365
Blevins Middle School363
Bennett Elementary School362
Lopez Elementary School361
McGraw Elementary School349
Johnson Elementary School348
Harris Bilingual Elementary School311
Bamford Elementary School310
Olander Elementary School310
Linton Elementary School307
Beattie Elementary School302
Mountain Sage Community School287
Cache La Poudre Elementary School281
Cache La Poudre Middle School280
Fort Collins Montessori School278
PSD Global Academy259
Putnam Elementary School258
Poudre Community Academy212
Compass Community Collaborative School179
PSD Options School128
Centennial High School118
PSD Mountain Schools88

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