

Hinkley High School recorded 57 fewer students enrolled in 2024-25 school year than previous school year
Among the student body, 52.1% were boys and 47.9% were girls.
Data also showed that most of the students were Hispanic or Latino (1,155), representing 75.6% of the Hinkley High School total enrollment. Black students comprised the second-largest ethnic group, with 176 students (11.5%).
The grade level with the highest enrollment was twelfth grade, with 416 students enrolled that year, accounting for 27.2% of the total student body.
The school is located in Aurora Joint District No. 28, and has a central office in Aurora.
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 |
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Aurora Central High School | 2,468 |
Rangeview High School | 2,078 |
Vista Peak 9-12 Preparatory | 2,045 |
Gateway High School | 1,748 |
Hinkley High School | 1,527 |
Options School | 1,111 |
Lotus School for Excellence | 1,008 |
Edna and John W. Mosley P-8 | 994 |
Vista Peak P-8 Exploratory | 960 |
Sixth Avenue Elementary School | 950 |
Aurora West College Preparatory Academy | 927 |
Harmony Ridge P-8 | 894 |
Murphy Creek K-8 School | 855 |
Academy of Advanced Learning | 847 |
Aurora Hills Middle School | 821 |
Mrachek Middle School | 811 |
Global Village Academy Aurora | 802 |
Aurora Frontier K-8 | 761 |
Rocky Mountain Prep: Fletcher | 701 |
Vanguard Classical School - East | 690 |
Virginia Court Elementary School | 657 |
Columbia Middle School | 636 |
East Middle School | 634 |
Tollgate Elementary School of Expeditionary Learning | 601 |
Vega Collegiate Academy | 583 |
Kenton Elementary School | 583 |
Aurora Quest K-8 | 575 |
Crawford Elementary School | 567 |
North Middle School Health Sciences and Technology | 565 |
Aurora Academy Charter School | 536 |
Altura Elementary School | 527 |
Elkhart Elementary School | 525 |
Side Creek Elementary School | 512 |
Iowa Elementary School | 502 |
Vassar Elementary School | 500 |
Jewell Elementary School | 493 |
Yale Elementary School | 492 |
Park Lane Elementary School | 486 |
Clyde Miller K-8 | 466 |
Laredo Elementary School | 449 |
Aurora Science & Tech Middle School | 448 |
Vaughn Elementary School | 446 |
Arkansas Elementary School | 432 |
Dalton Elementary School | 430 |
Dartmouth Elementary School | 422 |
Boston K-8 School | 413 |
William Smith High School | 410 |
Fulton Academy of Excellence | 410 |
AXL Academy | 402 |
Vanguard Classical School - West | 380 |
Montview Math & Health Sciences Elementary School | 380 |
Lansing Elementary Community School | 366 |
Wheeling Elementary School | 282 |
Laredo Child Development Center | 210 |
Meadowood Child Development Center | 166 |
Jamaica Child Development Center | 106 |
APS Early Beginnings - A Zoom Site | 23 |