Enrollment
153
High
DISTRICT 164 · STATE 627
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DEER TRAIL SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 26J·NCES 080327000288
Deer Trail Junior-Senior High School
130 2ND AVENUE, DEER TRAIL, CO 80105 · (303) 769-4421 · Arapahoe County
GRADES 06–12HIGH43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL153 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
12 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 16.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
69 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 50%
Community
0
0 members
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Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
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CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
21.7%
CO avg 44.9% . +14.9pp since 2023
Math
16.9%
CO avg 36.1%
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 15 points since 2023.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
17.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.4%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-21.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 39% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
153
+59 (+63%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
was 10.7:1
% White
39%
was 71%
% Hispanic
53%
was 27%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About Deer Trail Junior-Senior High School
Deer Trail Junior-Senior High School is a high school of one-room-style scale in DEER TRAIL, Colorado, run under Deer Trail School District No. 26J, works with 153 students in grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 627 students each, so Deer Trail Junior-Senior High School sits 76% smaller than that benchmark.
Deer Trail School District No. 26J comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 327 students; Deer Trail Junior-Senior High School is among them.
In terms of who attends, Deer Trail Junior-Senior High School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder consists of 39% White, 5% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.9:1 average. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
With demographic context factored in, Deer Trail Junior-Senior High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 39.4%; this one comes in at 17.7%, -21.7 points off the demographic line.
In the broader community, census data for Arapahoe County shows median household income runs about $101,087, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Arapahoe County runs 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students), of which Deer Trail Junior-Senior High School is one.
Deer Trail Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus.
Geographically, the school is in a rural area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Deer Trail Junior-Senior High School has increased 63%, going from 94 students in 2018 to 153 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 71% to 39% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.
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Arapahoe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
659,844
Census ACS
Median income
$101,087
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
47%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
176
115,502 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Deer Trail School District No. 26J
- Deer Trail Elementary SchoolElementary · 174 students
Nearby schools
- Deer Trail Elementary School0.0 mi · 174
- Agate Junior Senior High School11.4 mi · 32
- Agate Elementary School11.4 mi · 53
- Colorado Online Middle School11.6 mi · 211
- Astravo Online Academy Middle School11.6 mi · 762
- Astravo Online Academy Elementary School11.6 mi · 645
Frequently asked questions
About Deer Trail Junior-Senior High SchoolHow many students attend Deer Trail Junior-Senior High School?
Deer Trail Junior-Senior High School enrolls approximately 153 students in grades 06-12.
What age range does Deer Trail Junior-Senior High School serve?
Deer Trail Junior-Senior High School serves students from grade 06 through grade 12.
How many teachers does Deer Trail Junior-Senior High School have?
Deer Trail Junior-Senior High School employs 12 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.4:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Deer Trail Junior-Senior High School?
At Deer Trail Junior-Senior High School, the student body is approximately 39% White, 53% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Two or more.
Is Deer Trail Junior-Senior High School public or private?
Deer Trail Junior-Senior High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Deer Trail School District No. 26J.
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