Chavez/Huerta K-12 Preparatory Academy recorded 134 fewer students enrolled in 2024-25 school year than previous school year

There were 844 students enrolled in Chavez/Huerta K-12 Preparatory Academy during the 2024-25 school year, 13.7% less than the previous year's 978 students welcomed, according to the Colorado Department of Education.

Among the student body, 50.8% were boys and 49.2% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were Hispanic or Latino (704), representing 83.4% of the Chavez/Huerta K-12 Preparatory Academy total enrollment. White students comprised the second-largest ethnic group, with 114 students (13.5%).

The grade level with the highest enrollment was eighth grade, with 97 students enrolled that year, accounting for 11.5% of the total student body.

The school is located in Pueblo School District No. 60, and has a central office in Pueblo.

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
Central High School	1,145
East High School	1,081
Chavez/Huerta K-12 Preparatory Academy	844
Centennial High School	801
South High School	795
W. H. Heaton Middle School	578
Corwin International Magnet School	565
Pueblo Academy of Arts	562
Goodnight Elementary School	534
Paragon Learning Center	476
Pueblo Charter School for the Arts & Sciences	444
Sunset Park Elementary School	425
Belmont Elementary School	394
Morton Elementary School	374
Columbian Elementary School	371
Franklin School of Innovation	346
Risley International Academy of Innovation	335
Irving Elementary School	326
Park View Elementary School	285
Haaff Elementary School	284
Minnequa Elementary School	277
Highland Park Elementary School	276
Fountain International Magnet School	276
South Park Elementary School	273
Beulah Heights Elementary School	264
Bradford Elementary School	252
Heritage Elementary School	250
Eva R. Baca Elementary School	250
Bessemer Elementary School	248
Pueblo School for Arts & Sciences at Fulton Height	221
D60 Online School	112