Falcon High School

Falcon High School is a 9-12 campus of heavily attended scale in PEYTON, Colorado, overseen by El Paso County Colorado School District 49, instructing 1,172 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 87% above the state mean of about 627.

Within El Paso County Colorado School District 49, which oversees 31 schools and 25,689 students, Falcon High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Falcon High School lists that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 21% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 5% Black.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.8:1. The state averages around 16.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below El Paso County's rate of about 42%.

After controlling for student poverty, Falcon High School is in the bottom 10% of Colorado public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 49.3%; Falcon High School posts 28.1%, -21.2 points below that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (El Paso County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, El Paso County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), of which Falcon High School is one.

The closest other public school is Meridian Ranch Elementary School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Falcon High School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 41.3%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Falcon High School's enrollment has ticked down 3% since 2018, when it stood at 1,207 (now 1,172). White enrollment moved from 69% to 63% across the same window.

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