+13%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Montessori Education Center of the Rockies rose 13% between 2006 and 2009 ($6.6k → $7.5k).
Colorado · Private nonprofit · Predominantly certificates
Montessori Education Center of the Rockies
Denver, Colorado. 6 undergraduate students. 2 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Montessori Education Center of the Rockies
Short-arc shifts (recent 3-year window), peer outliers, earnings trend breaks, completion drops, enrollment cliffs, and debt-to-earnings warnings — surfaced deterministically from the federal record. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section, since 25-year tuition drift isn't really an anomaly.
+100%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Montessori Education Center of the Rockies rose 100% between 2010 and 2013 (50.0% → 100.0%).
+100%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Montessori Education Center of the Rockies rose 100% between 2021 and 2024 (5 → 10).
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Montessori Education Center of the Rockies fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (5.2% → 0.0%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Colorado
Each tile compares this institution to the Colorado median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$44,643+83% · 6→10y
Colorado median $43,242$24,368
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry91.7%-17% · '01→'24
Colorado median 55.5%—+35% · '01→'09
At program completion6-80% · '01→'24
latest IPEDS—
first-time, full-time80.0%+25% · '04→'24
latest cohort—+5% · '02→'03
annualSECTION 02 · EARNINGS HORIZONS
How earnings spread, 4 to 10 years after entry
Treasury tax-record earnings for federally aided students who first enrolled at this institution. Each point is a horizon from the most-recent vintage. Single median per horizon (no p25/p75 publishing).
Earnings widen with time post-entry. Selection: federal-aid recipients only — not all graduates.Methodology →
SECTION 04 · LONG ARC
Ten-plus year arc
Federally available history. Coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Undergraduate enrollment.
150%-time completion rate.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+2000%
Montessori Education Center of the Rockies · retention rose
0.0% → 100.0%
-20%
Montessori Education Center of the Rockies · undergrad enrollment fell
50 → 10
+35%
Montessori Education Center of the Rockies · median debt rose
$5,558 → $7,500
-100%
Montessori Education Center of the Rockies · cohort default rate fell
20.0% → 0.0%
-28%
Montessori Education Center of the Rockies · pell share fell
17.4% → 12.5%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Montessori Education Center of the Rockies
Pick a program. Cost from Scorecard net price by family income; earnings from Treasury 5-year-post-completion median, projected forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve. The selection-bias toggle applies the Dale-Krueger shrinkage. Outcomes illustration, not a forecast — see methodology.
Shrinks the earnings premium toward the matched-applicant mean. STEM <15%, business ~40%, arts & education ~60%.
EARNINGS SUPPRESSED
Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods · Graduate/Professional Certificate at Montessori Education Center of the Rockies(cohort below 30 students). The calculator can’t produce a number we’d stand behind, so we don’t.
Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in Colorado
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Montessori Education Center of the Rockies graduates earn $X” — not “Montessori Education Center of the Rockies makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Montessori Education Center of the Rockies caused. Selection effects (who admits, who enrolls, who completes) are real. We publish federal data with strict descriptive phrasing — and link the methodology where you can read about the limitations directly.