Aguilar Junior-Senior High School

Aguilar Junior-Senior High School, a tiny four-year high school in AGUILAR, Colorado, operated by Aguilar Reorganized School District No. 6, works with 48 students, covering grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 627 students each, so Aguilar Junior-Senior High School sits 92% leaner than that benchmark.

Aguilar Junior-Senior High School is one of 2 schools operated by Aguilar Reorganized School District No. 6, a district that serves 127 students overall.

Demographically, Aguilar Junior-Senior High School shows that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 44% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Las Animas County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Aguilar Junior-Senior High School logs 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.9:1 average. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Las Animas County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Las Animas County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $52,074 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Las Animas County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,870 students), Aguilar Junior-Senior High School is one campus in the mix.

Aguilar Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Aguilar Junior-Senior High School's enrollment has edged up 4% since 2018, when it stood at 46 (now 48). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 61% to 44%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 7.6:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Aguilar Junior-Senior High School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.