Legacy Options High School

Legacy Options High School is one of the rural-scale high schools in DENVER, Colorado, overseen by School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C, with 153 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 76% smaller than the state mean of about 627.

School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C comprises 198 schools with combined enrollment of 90,471 students; Legacy Options High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Legacy Options High School shows that 65% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 22% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Pacific Islander, 3% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

In terms of school funding signals, Legacy Options High School records 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.7:1. The state averages around 16.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Denver County's rate of about 63%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Denver County indicate the typical household earns roughly $94,718 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Denver County runs 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students), of which Legacy Options High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: High Point Academy, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Legacy Options High School.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Legacy Options High School has rose 66%, going from 92 students in 2018 to 153 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 38% to 22%. Class-load math has rose: from 9.2:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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