Poudre School District has lost more than an elementary school’s worth of students due to enrollment decline in the past year, and the financial impact could be even worse.
The district’s preliminary enrollment count showed a loss of 513 students in the district’s non-charter schools, dropping total enrollment to 25,013, according to data shared by Budget Director Brian Gustafson during a Dec. 9 Board of Education meeting. That’s just one student fewer than PSD had projected for the current school year in a five-year forecast predicting a decline of 1,945 students in its non-charter schools by 2028-29.
This year’s decline in non-charter enrollment was offset slightly by an increase of 20 students in the district’s five charter schools, Gustafson said, for an overall enrollment decline of 493 students…