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Ridgeview Classical Schools recorded 12 fewer students enrolled in 2024-25 school year than previous school year
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.
| School | Total Enrollment |
|---|---|
| Rocky Mountain High School | 2,044 |
| Fossil Ridge High School | 1,846 |
| Fort Collins High School | 1,837 |
| Liberty Common Charter School | 1,516 |
| Poudre High School | 1,409 |
| Wellington Middle School | 1,177 |
| Lesher Middle School | 766 |
| Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School | 762 |
| Webber Middle School | 729 |
| Ridgeview Classical Schools | 723 |
| Eyestone Elementary School | 619 |
| Preston Middle School | 568 |
| Lincoln Middle School | 552 |
| Boltz Middle School | 551 |
| Tavelli Elementary School | 519 |
| Bethke Elementary School | 512 |
| Zach Elementary School | 492 |
| Traut Core Elementary School | 484 |
| Timnath Elementary School | 455 |
| Riffenburgh Elementary School | 443 |
| Bauder Elementary School | 423 |
| Shepardson Elementary School | 414 |
| Laurel Elementary School | 412 |
| Kruse Elementary School | 406 |
| Polaris Expeditionary Learning School | 406 |
| Rice Elementary School | 401 |
| O'Dea Elementary School | 398 |
| Bacon Elementary School | 397 |
| Dunn Elementary School | 392 |
| Werner Elementary School | 374 |
| Irish Elementary School | 365 |
| Blevins Middle School | 363 |
| Bennett Elementary School | 362 |
| Lopez Elementary School | 361 |
| McGraw Elementary School | 349 |
| Johnson Elementary School | 348 |
| Harris Bilingual Elementary School | 311 |
| Bamford Elementary School | 310 |
| Olander Elementary School | 310 |
| Linton Elementary School | 307 |
| Beattie Elementary School | 302 |
| Mountain Sage Community School | 287 |
| Cache La Poudre Elementary School | 281 |
| Cache La Poudre Middle School | 280 |
| Fort Collins Montessori School | 278 |
| PSD Global Academy | 259 |
| Putnam Elementary School | 258 |
| Poudre Community Academy | 212 |
| Compass Community Collaborative School | 179 |
| PSD Options School | 128 |
| Centennial High School | 118 |
| PSD Mountain Schools | 88 |