Gateway High School

Gateway High School is one of the sizable four-year high schools in AURORA, Colorado, one of the schools within Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the counties of Adams and A, with 1,748 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 627 students each, so Gateway High School sits 179% above that benchmark.

Gateway High School is one of 59 schools operated by Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the counties of Adams and A, a district that educates 39,464 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Gateway High School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Black, 8% White, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Arapahoe County as a whole is about 22% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.9:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Arapahoe County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Gateway High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 16.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 5.8%.

Zooming out to the county, Arapahoe County reports that the typical household earns roughly $101,087 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Gateway High School is one of 176 public schools in Arapahoe County (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students).

Colorado Early Colleges Aurora is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Gateway High School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 15.4%.

Gateway High School operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Gateway High School's enrollment has grew 3% since 2018, when it stood at 1,694 (now 1,748). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 56% to 64%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.3:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 today.

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