Grand Mesa High School

Set in COLLBRAN, Colorado, Grand Mesa High School is a very small secondary school, overseen by Plateau Valley School District No. 50 in the county of Mesa. It caters to 55 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 627 students each, so Grand Mesa High School sits 91% smaller than that benchmark.

Plateau Valley School District No. 50 in the county of Mesa comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 303 students; Grand Mesa High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Grand Mesa High School records that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. Other groups include 22% Black, 16% Hispanic, 4% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Grand Mesa High School has 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.9:1 average.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Mesa County indicate the typical household earns roughly $73,658 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Grand Mesa High School is one of 57 public schools in Mesa County (combined enrollment of about 22,232 students).

Plateau Valley Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 62%: 143 students in 2018 compared to 55 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment decreased from 37% to 16% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 30.0:1 in 2018 to 23.3:1 today.

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