Cheyenne Mountain High School

Cheyenne Mountain High School operates as a heavily attended 9-12 campus in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, one of the schools within Cheyenne Mountain School District No. 12 in the county of E. Current enrollment sits at 1,275 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 627 students each, so Cheyenne Mountain High School sits 103% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Cheyenne Mountain School District No. 12 in the county of E, which oversees 9 schools and 3,745 students, Cheyenne Mountain High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Cheyenne Mountain High School lists that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for El Paso County put the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Cheyenne Mountain High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Gold Camp Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cheyenne Mountain High School.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Cheyenne Mountain High School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 1,264 (now 1,275). White enrollment moved from 75% to 69% across the same window.

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