Sixteen school districts in Colorado, almost all of them rural, are showing signs of financial stress, according to an audit released on the fiscal health of the state’s 178 public school districts.
Eighteen other districts, however, are moving off the list with improvements to their fiscal health in the 2023-24 fiscal year.
The Ellicott School District, east of Colorado Springs, was under the bullseye Monday, with five missed benchmarks in 2023-24, up from one in 2022-23. The district had no missed benchmarks just two years earlier.
Of the 16 school districts that missed financial benchmarks, four were in rural El Paso County…