Bayfield High School

Set in BAYFIELD, Colorado, Bayfield High School is a cozy high school, one of the schools within Bayfield School District No. 10Jt-R. It caters to 404 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 627 students per school, that is 36% leaner than typical.

Bayfield School District No. 10Jt-R comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,183 students; Bayfield High School is among them.

On demographics, Bayfield High School logs that White students make up the majority at 71%. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 4% Native American, 4% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bayfield High School is in the bottom 10% of Colorado public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 45.9%; Bayfield High School posts 20.8%, -25.1 points below that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (La Plata County) records that the typical household earns roughly $86,056 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across La Plata County's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,504 students), Bayfield High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Bayfield Middle School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bayfield High School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 28.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 6%: 381 students in 2018 compared to 404 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 82% to 71% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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