Conifer Senior High School

Set in CONIFER, Colorado, Conifer Senior High School is a moderately sized four-year high school, one of the schools within Jefferson County School District No. R-1. It teaches 819 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 31% above the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 627 students.

Conifer Senior High School is one of 148 schools operated by Jefferson County School District No. R-1, a district that educates 74,935 students overall.

On demographics, Conifer Senior High School records that nearly all students (86%) are White. Beyond that, the school records 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, Conifer Senior High School shows 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.0:1. The state averages around 16.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 17% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Jefferson County (around 32%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Conifer Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.4%, the actual is 44.4%, a residual of -12.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $110,656 per year, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Conifer Senior High School is one of 168 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students).

West Jefferson Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Conifer Senior High School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 62.3%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Conifer Senior High School has fell 7%, going from 879 students in 2018 to 819 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Conifer Senior High School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.