Eagle Valley High School

Located at 641 VALLEY ROAD, in GYPSUM, Colorado, Eagle Valley High School is a large senior high that teaches 980 students (grades 9 through 12), run under Eagle County School District No. Re 50. That puts it 56% bigger than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 627 students.

Across the 21 schools in Eagle County School District No. Re 50 (6,312 students total), Eagle Valley High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Eagle Valley High School logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 43% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Eagle Valley High School records 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.9:1 average. Around 36% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Eagle County (around 44%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Eagle Valley High School is in the bottom 10% of Colorado public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 45.1%; Eagle Valley High School posts 28.9%, -16.2 points below that line.

In the area at large, census data for Eagle County shows the typical household earns roughly $104,096 per year, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Eagle Valley High School is one of 23 public schools in Eagle County (combined enrollment of about 7,148 students).

The closest other public school is Gypsum Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Eagle Valley High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 32.3%.

Eagle Valley High School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 5%: 929 students in 2018 compared to 980 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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