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Regular Meeting, December 9, 2025 · item 8.1: Annual Enrollment Update · 15 pages
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Board of Education | December 9, 2025
District Level Enrollment 2025-2026 School Year
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Overview and Context ●
Snapshot of 2025 enrollment
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Trends - how we got here
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Enrollment report information contributes to: ○
Enrollment projections
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2026-27 budget
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Resource allocation ■ ■ ■
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FTE Facilities Educational materials
Other committees and processes (i.e. LRAC, Bond) 2
Overall Trends 2025-26
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Number of Students
Enrollment Trends 2015-2025
● Continued overall decline
of -1.9% ● Decline steeper than
projected (-0.9%) ● Decrease in new,
non-English speaking students Year
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Number of Students
Annual Enrollment Change by Level
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2025 losses greatest at elementary
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Secondary losses greater than past 2 years
Year
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Number of Students
BVSD Grade Distribution
Transition Years
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Number of Students
Regional Resident K-12 Student Change
● 23,901 K-12 resident students ● Eastern BVSD grew slightly in
2024, but declined in 2025 ● Second highest loss since Year
pandemic 7
Number of Students
Resident Elementary Student Change by Community
Year
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Migration, Out-of-District, & Births
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Inter-District Enrollment (w/PK)
Number of Students
(source: Colorado Dept. of Education; preliminary (p) information from BVSD enrollment data)
?* ● Third year of historic
high levels into BVSD ● New out-of-district stds.
higher than 2024
*unavailable until January 2026
Year
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Number of Students
New and Leaving Resident Students 2014-2025
2014 to 15 2015 to 16 2016 to 17 2017 to 18 2018 to 19 2019 to 20 2020 to 21 2021 to 22 2022 to 23 2023 to 24 2024 to 25
Change from Year to Year (adjusted for incoming kindergarteners and outgoing 12th graders)
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Birth Trends 2007 to 2024
Number of Births
Total Fertility Rate 2010/2020: 1.4/1.0
● Overall births in decline since 1999 ● Eastern BVSD mostly levels after 2017 while Boulder continues steep declines to 2019 ● Some leveling after 2019
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Births and Kindergarteners
Number of Students/Births
*
● Maintained rate (%) between
births and kindergarten in 2025
● Levels of new migrants may
have impacted kindergarten
*births occurring 5 to 6 years prior to kindergarten class
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Summary ●
Enrollment declined by -525/-1.9% over last year; 2nd greatest loss since pandemic.
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All levels saw declines in 2025, however kindergarten (1,626) was the largest since 2022.
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Previous student gains at middle school didn’t occur in 2025; may indicate students are no longer re-entering the system in significant numbers after the pandemic.
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Out of District contributions to enrollment in 2025 were higher than last year’s historic high.
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Boulder largely driving enrollment declines in 2025, but Lafayette/Erie also showed declines despite new housing.
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Births showing signs of leveling after a period of steep declines in Boulder.
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Resident student “net migration” faltering in 2025. 14
Questions? 15