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Enrollment
400
High
DISTRICT 405 · STATE 627
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GUNNISON WATERSHED SCHOOL DISTRICT RE1J·NCES 080447000655
Crested Butte Secondary School
818 RED LADY AVENUE, CRESTED BUTTE, CO 81224 · (970) 641-7720 · Gunnison County
GRADES 06–12HIGH43-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL400 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 54% of Colorado public high schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public high schools
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.0:1 · STATE 16.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
65 students
DISTRICT 29% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 46 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 71 | 18% |
| Grade 8 | 49 | 12% |
| Grade 9 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 10 | 55 | 14% |
| Grade 11 | 66 | 17% |
| Grade 12 | 50 | 13% |
Student demographics
17%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
50.3%
CO avg 44.9% . -6.3pp since 2023
Math
29.1%
CO avg 36.1% . -1.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.3% | 29.1% |
| 2023-24 | 56.6% | 31.0% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
45.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.9%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Crested Butte Secondary School
Crested Butte Secondary School's state test result (45.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crested Butte Secondary School this school | 400 | 16.3% | 45.4% |
| Renaissance Secondary School CASTLE ROCK | 441 | 17.5% | 55.4% |
| Conifer Senior High School CONIFER | 819 | 17.0% | 44.4% |
| Berthoud High School BERTHOUD | 722 | 14.7% | 36.1% |
| Windsor Charter Academy Early College High School WINDSOR | 435 | 17.0% | 56.7% |
| Elizabeth High School ELIZABETH | 668 | 22.6% | 48.1% |
Matched among Colorado high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Crested Butte Secondary School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.4% | #41 of 231 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.1% | #19 of 54 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.3% | #16 of 57 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 400 | #187 of 409 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #53 of 250 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 17.2% | #243 of 250 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.3% | #303 of 320 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.4% | #71 of 108 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
400
-48 (-11%) vs 2020
+122% since 1990-91, when it was 180
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 17.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 400 | 28.2 | 14.2:1 | 16% (65) |
| 2023-24 | 403 | 28.5 | 14.2:1 | 14% (56) |
| 2022-23 | 400 | 28.1 | 14.3:1 | 3% (13) |
| 2020-21 | 448 | 26 | 17.2:1 | 5% (24) |
| 2017-18 | 376 | 26.1 | 14.4:1 | 6% (22) |
| 2015-16 | 332 | 23 | 14.4:1 | 8% (27) |
| 2010-11 | 553 | 43 | 12.9:1 | 10% (54) |
| 2000-01 | 347 | 24 | 14.5:1 | 5% (16) |
| 1990-91 | 180 | 11 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Crested Butte Secondary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (376 to 400); teachers up 8% (26.1 to 28.2).
About Crested Butte Secondary School
Crested Butte Secondary School is a small high school for students in CRESTED BUTTE, Colorado. Classes run from 6 through 12, and the school has 400 students. The average for high schools in Colorado is about 627 students, so this school is 36% smaller than average.
Gunnison Watershed School District Re1J has 7 schools and 2,095 students, and Crested Butte Secondary School is one of those schools.
The large majority of students at Crested Butte Secondary School, 91%, are White. Next come 6% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. County-wide, about 87% of residents are White. The chance that two students picked at random at Crested Butte Secondary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 17%.
Staffing totals 28.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.2:1. That ratio is under the 16.9:1 average for high schools in Colorado. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Crested Butte Secondary School is 16%. Compared with the 33% average for public schools in Gunnison County, the school's rate is lower.
Measured against Colorado public high schools, Crested Butte Secondary School receives a B-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Crested Butte Secondary School would score about 56.9%. It scores 45.4%, 11.5 points below that figure.
In the county around the school, Gunnison County, median household income is about $84,527, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Crested Butte Secondary School is among the 7 public schools in Gunnison County.
Crested Butte Elementary School is located less than a tenth of a mile from Crested Butte Secondary School. Nearby schools with test data average 40.2% proficiency; Crested Butte Secondary School posts 45.4%.
Its location is classified as Rural: Remote by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Federal counts put enrollment at 448 in 2020-21 and 400 in 2024-25, an 11% decrease. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 17.2:1 to 14.2:1.
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Gunnison County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
17,241
Census ACS
Median income
$84,527
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
65%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
7
2,095 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Gunnison Watershed School District Re1J
- Gunnison Elementary SchoolElementary · 560 students
- Gunnison High SchoolHigh · 410 students
- Gunnison Middle SchoolMiddle · 314 students
- Crested Butte Elementary SchoolElementary · 303 students
- Lake PreschoolElementary · 74 students
- Marble Charter SchoolCombined · 34 students
Other schools in CRESTED BUTTE
- Crested Butte Elementary SchoolElementary · 303 students
Nearby schools
- Crested Butte Elementary School0.0 mi · 303
- Marble Charter School18.4 mi · 34
- Gunnison Elementary School21.6 mi · 560
- Gunnison Middle School21.6 mi · 314
- Lake Preschool21.7 mi · 74
- Gunnison High School22.0 mi · 410
Frequently asked questions
About Crested Butte Secondary SchoolHow large is Crested Butte Secondary School?
Crested Butte Secondary School enrolls approximately 400 students in grades 06-12.
What grades does Crested Butte Secondary School serve?
Crested Butte Secondary School serves grades 06-12.
How many students per teacher at Crested Butte Secondary School?
Approximately 14.2:1 students per teacher at Crested Butte Secondary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Crested Butte Secondary School?
At Crested Butte Secondary School, the student body is approximately 91% White, 6% Hispanic, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Crested Butte Secondary School?
Crested Butte Secondary School is overseen by Gunnison Watershed School District Re1J in Gunnison County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.