Fountain-Fort Carson High School

Fountain-Fort Carson High School is a public high school in FOUNTAIN, Colorado. It enrolled 1,974 students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2024-25 school year. Statewide, high schools in Colorado average about 627 students each.

Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8 operates 13 schools. Combined enrollment is 7,955 students.

No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Fountain-Fort Carson High School. The largest is White students, at 42%. The remaining students are 31% Hispanic, 11% Black, 10% multiracial, and 2% Pacific Islander. Census figures show El Paso County is about 70% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 70% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

The ratio of students to teachers is 17.3:1, with 114 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. That matches the 16.9:1 average for high schools in Colorado fairly closely. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 43%. For comparison, public schools in El Paso County average 42%.

Within El Paso County, the median household income is $90,363, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. In all, El Paso County has 245 public schools and roughly 114,356 students.

Of nearby public schools, Jordahl Elementary School is the closest, at about 0.3 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Fountain-Fort Carson High School.

The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.

Enrollment is up 8% from 2020-21, when Fountain-Fort Carson High School had 1,834 students, to 2024-25, when it had 1,974. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 16.2:1 to 17.3:1.

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