Mapleton Early Career Preparation

Mapleton Early Career Preparation operates as a compact four-year high school in THORNTON, Colorado, one of the schools within Mapleton School District No. 1 in the county of Adams & St. Current enrollment sits at 306 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 51% smaller than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 627 students.

Mapleton School District No. 1 in the county of Adams & St runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 7,095 students. Mapleton Early Career Preparation is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Mapleton Early Career Preparation shows that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 6% White, 3% Asian. By comparison, Adams County as a whole is about 43% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Mapleton Early Career Preparation reports 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.9:1 average. Roughly 72% of students at Mapleton Early Career Preparation qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Adams County's rate of about 62%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Adams County put the typical household earns roughly $94,571 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Adams County runs 171 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students), of which Mapleton Early Career Preparation is one.

Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mapleton Early Career Preparation.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 23%: 249 students in 2018 compared to 306 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 71% to 89% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 in 2025.

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