Horizon High School

As a big 9-12 campus in BRIGHTON, Colorado, Horizon High School hosts 1,966 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Adams 12 Five Star Schools. That puts it 214% bigger than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 627 students.

Adams 12 Five Star Schools comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 34,466 students; Horizon High School is among them.

Demographically, Horizon High School logs that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 35% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school lists 98 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.9:1, putting Horizon High School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Adams County's rate of about 62%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Horizon High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 46.6%; actual is 32.3%, a gap of -14.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Adams County shows median household income runs about $94,571, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Adams County's 171 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students), Horizon High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Bright Horizons Preschool, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Horizon High School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 39.9%.

Horizon High School operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Horizon High School's enrollment has shrank 3% since 2018, when it stood at 2,037 (now 1,966). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 63% to 53%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 today.

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