Denver Public Schools is seeing a sharper-than-expected drop in student enrollment, raising new questions about whether more school closures could be ahead.
The district projected a decline of about 1,500 students this fall, but preliminary numbers show enrollment is down by about 1,800 students compared to last year.
“We’re not just declining enrollment. We’re declining enrollment faster than we expected, and that decline creates very real obstacles to the education that our students deserve when we allow it to go unaddressed for an extended period of time,” DPS enrollment and campus planning executive director Andrew Huber said…