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Colorado: classified-EL share over time
Annual share of public-school students classified as English Learners.
Methodology note
- Colorado Department of Education, October 1 fall count. Multilingual Learner identification under the English Language Proficiency Act (C.R.S. 22-24-101 through 22-24-108): students classified as NEP (Non-English Proficient) or LEP (Limited English Proficient) by WIDA Screener/ACCESS within the five-year ELPA services window. Denominator is K-12 public enrollment (114,482 of 881,464). The 2.6 percentage-point increase over NCES's fall 2021 figure (10.4%) tracks newcomer enrollment growth subsequently codified in Colorado HB 24-1389 (2024).
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About this figure
Each point is the fall-enrollment share of students classified as English Learners in Colorado's public schools. Observations through fall 2021 are drawn from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Digest of Education Statistics, Table 204.20, the canonical national series; NCES has not yet republished this table for school years after 2021-22. For fall 2023, the catalog falls back to figures published directly by the Colorado state education agency. State-agency methodology may differ from NCES — the methodology note above the data table records the difference, and the dashed line and hollow markers in the chart mark the boundary.
Sources: NCES Digest of Education Statistics 2023, Table 204.20 (opens in a new tab) ; Colorado Department of Education, October 2023 Pupil Membership and Multilingual Learner data (opens in a new tab) .