De Beque PK-12 School District 49JT

Located at 730 MINTER AVENUE, in DE BEQUE, Colorado, De Beque PK-12 School District 49JT is an one-room-style multi-level school that hosts 179 students (grades pre-K through 12), part of De Beque Joint District No. 49 of the counties of Mesa and. That puts it 66% leaner than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 523 students.

De Beque PK-12 School District 49JT sits inside De Beque Joint District No. 49 of the counties of Mesa and, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, De Beque PK-12 School District 49JT records that White students make up the majority at 76%; the rest looks like 22% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.3:1 average. Roughly 64% of students at De Beque PK-12 School District 49JT qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Mesa County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, De Beque PK-12 School District 49JT performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.1%, the actual is 21.2%, a residual of -6.9 points.

In the surrounding community, Mesa County reports that median household income runs about $73,658, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Mesa County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,232 students), De Beque PK-12 School District 49JT is one campus in the mix.

Bea Underwood Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 10.9 miles from this campus. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), De Beque PK-12 School District 49JT ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 22.4%.

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

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at De Beque PK-12 School District 49JT has climbed 8%, going from 165 students in 2018 to 179 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 88% to 76%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 9.1:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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