Lyons Middle/Senior High School

Lyons Middle/Senior High School operates as a small secondary school in LYONS, Colorado, one of the schools within St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J. Current enrollment sits at 344 students spanning grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 627 students each, so Lyons Middle/Senior High School sits 45% leaner than that benchmark.

St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 31,607 students; Lyons Middle/Senior High School is among them.

On demographics, Lyons Middle/Senior High School shows that nearly all students (85%) are White. The remainder is composed of 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, Lyons Middle/Senior High School records 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.9:1, putting Lyons Middle/Senior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Lyons Middle/Senior High School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 50.9%; this one delivers 65.0%, a residual of +14.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Boulder County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,994 per year, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Boulder County's 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,200 students), Lyons Middle/Senior High School is one campus in the mix.

Lyons Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Lyons Middle/Senior High School. On composite proficiency, Lyons Middle/Senior High School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 59.4%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lyons Middle/Senior High School has ticked down 18%, going from 417 students in 2018 to 344 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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