Hoehne Schools

Hoehne Schools, an intimate K-12 campus in TRINIDAD, Colorado, one of the schools within Hoehne Reorganized School District No. 3, works with 271 students, covering grades pre-K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 48% below the state mean of about 523.

Hoehne Schools sits inside Hoehne Reorganized School District No. 3, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Hoehne Schools records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 60% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 37% White. The wider county runs roughly 39% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.4:1. The state averages around 14.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 38% of students at Hoehne Schools qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Las Animas County's rate of about 60%.

With demographic context factored in, Hoehne Schools performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.9%, the actual is 34.6%, a residual of -9.3 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Las Animas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $52,074 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Las Animas County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,870 students), of which Hoehne Schools is one.

Nearest neighbor: Trinidad Middle School, around 10.6 miles off. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hoehne Schools ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 27.8%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 25%: 359 students in 2018 compared to 271 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 42% to 37%.

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