Doherty High School

Doherty High School is a secondary school of large scale in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, overseen by Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E, instructing 1,715 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 174% bigger than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 627 students.

Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E comprises 60 schools with combined enrollment of 22,293 students; Doherty High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Doherty High School logs that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 32% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Doherty High School records 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.9:1 average. Roughly 51% of students at Doherty High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Doherty High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 36.1%; actual is 19.5%, a gap of -16.6 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (El Paso County) shows that median household earnings sit near $90,363, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Doherty High School is one campus in the mix.

Carver Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Doherty High School at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 28.2%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Doherty High School's enrollment has contracted 18% since 2018, when it stood at 2,101 (now 1,715). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 56% to 48%.

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