Attendance Information

Truancy Rates in Colorado

Truancy is a complicated issue. It is a symptom or outcome of various conditions and circumstances that eventually lead to a student not attending school. It is one of the earliest indicators of students needing help and if not addressed effectively, can result in a student eventually dropping out of school. Working with each truant student as soon as attendance issues become known is one of the earliest opportunities to identify and address a student's learning and social and emotional needs with the goal of the student becoming more engaged in the learning process and on a path toward academic success.

This page includes an overview of Colorado Attendance law, information about support strategies, and a summary of recent data.

Resources

To better understand truancy-related issues, increase school attendance, and otherwise prevent or reduce truancy:

• National Center for School Engagement, Denver
• For information about grants available through CDE to support attendance, please visit the Dropout Prevention and Student Reengagement office

Colorado Truancy Rates by School

Colorado Chronic Absenteeism by District

• 2021-2022 Chronic Absenteeism (XLS)
• 2020-2021 Chronic Absenteeism (XLS)
• 2019-2020 Chronic Absenteeism (XLS)
• 2018-2019 Chronic Absenteeism (XLS)
• 2017-2018 Chronic Absenteeism (XLS)
• 2016-2017 Chronic Absenteeism (XLS)

For additional information, E-Mail: Brooke Wenzel

For data requests, please see CDE’s Data Request page