Education
- Adult Education: Colorado Department of Education Adult Education Division.
- Attainment: Data by sex, race and Hispanic origin (since 1980) at the regional and state levels, based on the decennial census.
- Attainment, national data: From the US Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey, 2007.
- Attainment, state & county: Annual data from the American Community Survey for Colorado and for counties and places with more than 65,000 people.
- K-12: Colorado Department of Education facts and statistics by school district.
- Funding: Colorado Department of Higher Education, Colorado Higher Education Financing Study, 2007.
- Funding: Public elementary-secondary education finance data, by state and individual school district data, from 1992-2006.
- Graduation policy and rates: Education Week's most recent annual report, Diplomas Count: 2008, with detailed data on graduation rates across the 50 states. A brief for Colorado is also available.
- Homeschooling in the United States: 2003: This report provides statistics about the homeschooling population during the spring of 2003 and spring of 1999, and provides detailed characteristics of homeschoolers in both years. Produced by the National Center for Education Statistics.
- K-12 and Post Secondary data: National Center for Education Statistics.
- K-12 Colorado data: Colorado Department of Education Charter School Page.
- Dropout and Completion Rates in the United States: 2006: This report builds upon a series of National Center for Education Statistics reports on high school dropout and completion rates that began in 1988. It presents estimates of rates for 2006 and provides data about trends in dropout and completion rates over the last three decades (1972-2006), including characteristics of dropouts and completers in these years.
- Colorado Literacy Resource provides information about adult and family literacy programs in Colorado. Also links to the National Institute for Literacy with information on correctional education; English as a second language; family literacy; health & literacy; literacy & learning disabilities; program leadership and improvement; science & numeracy; and workforce education.
- Colorado Literacy Consortium: Colorado Department of Education resources on literacy. Enrollment in Degree-Granting Institutions by Selected Characteristics and Control of Institution
- Post-secondary, underserved students: Report entitled “Programs to Improve the Retention and Success of Underserved Students at Colorado Public Institutions: Report to the education committees of the Colorado general assembly in response to HB 06-1024.”
- Post-secondary, demographics: Education statistics-projections to 2011 on higher education.
- Pupil-teacher K-12 ratios: Public, private, and total historical pupil/teacher ratios. Actual data from 2005, with projections to 2017.
- Vocational education: Even Start data and information. See The Third National Even Start Evaluation report, commissioned by the US Department of Education. Also refer to Backgrounder - The Third National Even Start Evaluation: Data that Distort Reality, a critique of the Even Start evaluation.
- Vocational Education: The U.S. Department of Education Office of Vocational and Adult Education.
Updated Thursday, April 25, 2013
