Mountain Range High School

Located at 12500 HURON STREET, in WESTMINSTER, Colorado, Mountain Range High School is a sprawling four-year high school that works with 1,788 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Adams 12 Five Star Schools. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 627 students each, so Mountain Range High School sits 185% bigger than that benchmark.

Adams 12 Five Star Schools runs 54 schools in total, collectively educating 34,466 students. Mountain Range High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Mountain Range High School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 36% White, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 43% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 86 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.9:1, putting Mountain Range High School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Adams County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Mountain Range High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.3%, the actual is 22.4%, a residual of -11.9 points.

Across the wider county, Adams County reports that median household income runs about $94,571, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mountain Range High School is one of 171 public schools in Adams County (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students).

Silver Hills Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mountain Range High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mountain Range High School at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 36.6%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 10%: 1,989 students in 2018 compared to 1,788 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 57% to 36%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.2:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 in 2025.

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