Cedaredge High School

Cedaredge High School, a modestly sized 9-12 campus in CEDAREDGE, Colorado, operated by Delta County Joint District No. 50, teaches 280 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 55% smaller than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 627 students.

Cedaredge High School is one of 17 schools operated by Delta County Joint District No. 50, a district that instructs 4,591 students overall.

Demographically, Cedaredge High School logs that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.9:1 average. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cedaredge High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.1%, the actual is 29.7%, a residual of -7.4 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Delta County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $57,774 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Cedaredge High School is one of 18 public schools in Delta County (combined enrollment of about 4,591 students).

Nearest neighbor: Cedaredge Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cedaredge High School at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 34.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Cedaredge High School's enrollment has shrank 5% since 2018, when it stood at 296 (now 280). Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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