Alta Vista Charter School

Alta Vista Charter School, a micro-enrollment K-5 school in LAMAR, Colorado, one of the schools within Lamar School District No. Re-2, hosts 133 students, covering grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 65% below the state mean of about 379.

Alta Vista Charter School is one of 6 schools operated by Lamar School District No. Re-2, a district that enrolls 1,397 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Alta Vista Charter School records that White students make up the majority at 60%; the rest breaks down as 35% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Prowers County runs at roughly 69%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Alta Vista Charter School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.8%, the actual is 52.7%, a residual of +12.9 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Prowers County put the typical household earns roughly $53,508 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Alta Vista Charter School is one of 11 public schools in Prowers County (combined enrollment of about 2,153 students).

The closest other public school is Lamar Middle School, roughly 3.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Alta Vista Charter School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Alta Vista Charter School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 33.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area. Alta Vista Charter School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 133 students in 2018 compared to 133 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 67% to 60% across the same window.

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