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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