Mesa Valley Community School

Located at 609 25 ROAD, in GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado, Mesa Valley Community School is an one-room-style 9-12 campus that teaches 178 students (grades 6 through 12), run under Mesa County Valley School District No. 51. Compared to the state average of about 627 students per school, that is 72% below typical.

Mesa Valley Community School is one of 45 schools operated by Mesa County Valley School District No. 51, a district that caters to 20,344 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mesa Valley Community School shows that White students make up the majority at 78%. The remainder breaks down as 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 2% Asian.

Looking at school resources, Mesa Valley Community School reports 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.9:1, putting Mesa Valley Community School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 30% of students at Mesa Valley Community School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Mesa County's rate of about 53%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mesa Valley Community School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.7%, the actual is 44.0%, a residual of -4.7 points.

Across the wider county, Mesa County reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,658 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Mesa Valley Community School is one of 57 public schools in Mesa County (combined enrollment of about 22,232 students).

Pomona Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mesa Valley Community School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 41.1%.

Mesa Valley Community School operates from a metropolitan location. As a public charter, Mesa Valley Community School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mesa Valley Community School has edged down 52%, going from 373 students in 2018 to 178 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 38.7:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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