Crested Butte Secondary School

Crested Butte Secondary School is one of the compact high schools in CRESTED BUTTE, Colorado, overseen by Gunnison Watershed School District Re1J, with 400 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 627 students each, so Crested Butte Secondary School sits 36% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Gunnison Watershed School District Re1J, which oversees 7 schools and 2,095 students, Crested Butte Secondary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Crested Butte Secondary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). The remainder is composed of 6% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Gunnison County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.9:1, putting Crested Butte Secondary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 16% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Gunnison County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Crested Butte Secondary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.9%; this one delivers 45.4%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Gunnison County) logs that median household income runs about $84,527, about 65% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Gunnison County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,095 students), Crested Butte Secondary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Crested Butte Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Crested Butte Secondary School at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 40.2%.

Crested Butte Secondary School operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Crested Butte Secondary School's enrollment has edged up 6% since 2018, when it stood at 376 (now 400).

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