VISUALIZED AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS · CO
Colorado Public Schools
The canvas comes first: every public school district in Colorado, drawn from the federal boundary files. The data layers — enrollment change, funding, teachers, achievement — are built on top of this map, Missouri-style, in phases.
THE DISTRICT MAP
School district boundaries
Hover any district for its name. Boundaries are the 2024–25 school-year files from NCES EDGE / U.S. Census TIGER.
MAP IN PREPARATION
The Colorado district boundary file hasn’t been generated yet.
Run scripts/make_boundaries.sh to rebuild boundaries/colorado.geojson, then redeploy.
Source: NCES EDGE Composite School District Boundaries, 2024–25 (via U.S. Census TIGER/Line). Unified school districts.
178 districts are drawn on this map.
A note about charter schools. Charter schools enroll about 15.5% of Colorado’s public-school students, and they are not drawn individually on this map — they have no attendance boundary to draw. But in Colorado most charter schools are authorized by local school district boards, which means they generally sit inside the district boundaries you see here and count within those districts. What this map leaves out is the school-level detail, not the students themselves. A minority are authorized at the state level and enroll across district lines.