Caliche Junior-Senior High School

Set in ILIFF, Colorado, Caliche Junior-Senior High School is a minimally staffed secondary school, run under School District No. Re-1 Valley. It hosts 104 students across grades 7 through 12. That puts it 83% leaner than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 627 students.

School District No. Re-1 Valley comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 1,910 students; Caliche Junior-Senior High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Caliche Junior-Senior High School shows that 79% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 17% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Logan County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.9:1, putting Caliche Junior-Senior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Caliche Junior-Senior High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 41.1%; actual is 22.9%, a gap of -18.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Logan County put median household earnings sit near $51,829, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Logan County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,649 students), of which Caliche Junior-Senior High School is one.

The closest other public school is Caliche Elementary School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Caliche Junior-Senior High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 15%: 122 students in 2018 compared to 104 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 today.

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