Grand Mesa Youth Services Center

Grand Mesa Youth Services Center is a public small high school in GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado. Enrollment is 18 students in 2024-25, and the school serves grades 5 through 12. Against the 627-student average for high schools in Colorado, enrollment here is 97% lower.

Across its 45 schools, Mesa County Valley School District No. 51 enrolls 20,344 students. Grand Mesa Youth Services Center is one of those schools.

Grand Mesa Youth Services Center's enrollment is 67% White. The next largest groups are 33% Hispanic. In Mesa County overall, about 82% of residents are White.

Grand Mesa Youth Services Center's 1.8 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 10.3:1. That ratio is under the 16.9:1 average for high schools in Colorado.

In Mesa County (population about 158,601), median household income is about $73,658, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 32%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. A total of 57 public schools operate in Mesa County, serving about 22,232 students.

Orchard Mesa Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

NCES assigns Grand Mesa Youth Services Center the locale Suburb: Mid-size, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

In 2020-21, federal data counted 3 students at Grand Mesa Youth Services Center; in 2024-25, 18. The grades served may not have been the same in both years.

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