Public Schools in Colorado
1,923 schools · 185 districts · 870,819 students
Largest Schools in Colorado
School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.
GOAL Academy
Pueblo
Cherry Creek High School
Greenwood Village
Eaglecrest High School
Centennial
Cherokee Trail High School
Aurora
Grandview High School
Aurora
American Academy
Castle Pines
East High School
Denver
Rock Canyon High School
Highlands Ranch
Mountain Vista High School
Highlands Ranch
Smoky Hill High School
Aurora
Frequently Asked Questions
Colorado has 1,923 public schools across 185 districts, serving 870,819 students.
The largest school in Colorado is GOAL Academy with 5,690 students. Colorado has 1,923 public schools overall.
The average proficiency rate is 51%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.
School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.