Bennett High School

Bennett High School, a low-enrollment high school in BENNETT, Colorado, one of the schools within Bennett School District No. 29J, serves 431 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 627 students per school, that is 31% leaner than typical.

Bennett School District No. 29J comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 1,793 students; Bennett High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Bennett High School logs that 53% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 39% White, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

On the resource side, On paper, Bennett High School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.2:1. The state averages around 16.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Adams County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bennett High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 48.7%; this one comes in at 20.2%, -28.5 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, Adams County reports that the typical household earns roughly $94,571 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Adams County's 171 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students), Bennett High School is one campus in the mix.

Bennett Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bennett High School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 27.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bennett High School has rose 18%, going from 364 students in 2018 to 431 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 73% to 39%.

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