Colorado contains fourteen schools that offer child day care programs. Emily Griffith Opportunity School, the highest-ranking child day care school in CO, has a total student population of 2,230 and is the 2063rd highest ranked school in America.
Child Day Care students from Colorado schools who go on to become day care specialists, social workers, nannies, day care professionals, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 595,650 people working as child care workers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $20,940. Also, Child, family, and school social workers make on average $43,540 per year and there are about 277,670 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Colorado alone, there are 4,960 employed child, family, and school social workers earning an average yearly salary of $44,370. Child care workers in this state earn $22,890/yr and there are 9,840 employed.
Also, within the child day care schools in Colorado, the average student population is 3,182 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 18 to 1. Aside from child day care, there are 2501 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 3,103 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,337, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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