Hinkley High School recorded 57 fewer students enrolled in 2024-25 school year than previous school year

There were 1,527 students enrolled in Hinkley High School during the 2024-25 school year, 3.6% less than the previous year's 1,584 students welcomed, according to the Colorado Department of Education.

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
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