At $18,511 per pupil, Fremont Re-3 ranks #49 of 180 Colorado districts by per-pupil spending (Colorado districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
190
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$18,511
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Fremont Re-3 operates 2 public schools serving 190 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Colorado. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Fremont County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,511 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 180 Colorado districts by per-pupil spending. See how Colorado compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 54.2% local, 29.3% state, and 16.6% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 2 schools offering Advanced Placement (1 AP courses district-wide), and 45.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 86.5% White, 9.1% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Cotopaxi Elementary School, enrolling 78 students (50% of the district's total enrollment).
Cotopaxi Elementary School accounts for 41.1% of all Fremont Re-3 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Fremont Re-3-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
Fremont Re-3 chronic absenteeism rate is 45.1% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.