Ellicott Senior High School

Ellicott Senior High School is a 9-12 campus of low-enrollment scale in ELLICOTT, Colorado, run under Ellicott School District No. 22 in the county of El Paso a, teacheing 259 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 627 students each, so Ellicott Senior High School sits 59% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Ellicott School District No. 22 in the county of El Paso a, which oversees 3 schools and 1,009 students, Ellicott Senior High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ellicott Senior High School logs that 47% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 44% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Ellicott Senior High School shows 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. The state averages around 16.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against El Paso County (around 42%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Ellicott Senior High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 30.2%; this one comes in at 15.7%, -14.5 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, El Paso County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, El Paso County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), of which Ellicott Senior High School is one.

The closest other public school is Ellicott Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Ellicott Senior High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 32.8%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ellicott Senior High School has declined 10%, going from 288 students in 2018 to 259 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 59% to 44% across the same window.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.