DPS announces highest enrollment in years.

In November 2024, DPS decided to close ten public schools, in whole or in part. The reason: “declining enrollment.” The lawsuit we filed on December 19, 2024, alleged that DPS Superintendent Alex Marrero had not presented accurate enrollment numbers in connection with his school closure request. 

On January 9, 2025, the Denver Board of Education held a work session in which they discussed the district’s “financial health.” In the slide deck, DPS represents that “DPS K-12 enrollment is at its highest point in recent years,” and acknowledged that its prior enrollment “projections” were wrong. DPS has, nevertheless, showed no signs of voluntarily stopping the school closures it approved in November 2024, even though even the district now appears to acknowledge that the reason it gave for the closures lacks factual support.