Agate Junior Senior High School

Agate Junior Senior High School is a four-year high school of tiny scale in AGATE, Colorado, part of Agate School District No. 300, hosting 32 students in grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 627 students each, so Agate Junior Senior High School sits 95% smaller than that benchmark.

Agate School District No. 300 runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 85 students. Agate Junior Senior High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Agate Junior Senior High School reports that 75% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 25% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Agate Junior Senior High School has 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.9:1 average. Roughly 66% of students at Agate Junior Senior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Elbert County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Elbert County indicate median household income runs about $132,685, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Agate Junior Senior High School is one of 17 public schools in Elbert County (combined enrollment of about 3,265 students).

Nearest neighbor: Agate Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

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