La Veta Junior-Senior High School

Set in LA VETA, Colorado, La Veta Junior-Senior High School is a very small secondary school, run under La Veta School District Re-2. It instructs 118 students across grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 627 students each, so La Veta Junior-Senior High School sits 81% below that benchmark.

La Veta School District Re-2 comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 238 students; La Veta Junior-Senior High School is among them.

On demographics, La Veta Junior-Senior High School records that 70% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 27% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.9:1 average. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Huerfano County (around 80%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Huerfano County indicate the typical household earns roughly $52,526 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. La Veta Junior-Senior High School is one of 5 public schools in Huerfano County (combined enrollment of about 680 students).

La Veta Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at La Veta Junior-Senior High School has stayed largely flat, going from 119 students in 2018 to 118 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.