Elbert Junior-Senior High School

As a very small senior high in ELBERT, Colorado, Elbert Junior-Senior High School enrolls 136 students from grades 6 through 12, operated by Elbert School District No. 200. Compared to the state average of about 627 students per school, that is 78% below typical.

Elbert School District No. 200 runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 277 students. Elbert Junior-Senior High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Elbert Junior-Senior High School logs that nearly all students (88%) are White. The remainder comes out to 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.9:1, putting Elbert Junior-Senior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 35% of students at Elbert Junior-Senior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Elbert Junior-Senior High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 45.3%; actual is 19.6%, a gap of -25.7 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Elbert County put median household earnings sit near $132,685, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Elbert County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,265 students), of which Elbert Junior-Senior High School is one.

Elbert Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Elbert Junior-Senior High School at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 35.1%.

Elbert Junior-Senior High School operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Elbert Junior-Senior High School has held roughly steady, going from 138 students in 2018 to 136 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 94% to 88% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

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