Grand Valley High School

As a low-enrollment high school in PARACHUTE, Colorado, Grand Valley High School instructs 293 students from grades 9 through 12, overseen by Grand Valley School District No. 16 in the county of Garfi. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 627 students each, so Grand Valley High School sits 53% below that benchmark.

Grand Valley School District No. 16 in the county of Garfi comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,212 students; Grand Valley High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Grand Valley High School shows that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 46% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Garfield County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Grand Valley High School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.9:1, putting Grand Valley High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Garfield County's rate of about 50%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Grand Valley High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 29.9%; actual is 12.3%, a gap of -17.6 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Garfield County indicate median household income runs about $91,131, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Garfield County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,790 students), of which Grand Valley High School is one.

Grand Valley Center for Family Learning is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Grand Valley High School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 24.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 10%: 327 students in 2018 compared to 293 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 32% to 46%.

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