Nederland Middle-Senior High School

Nederland Middle-Senior High School is one of the one-room-style four-year high schools in NEDERLAND, Colorado, one of the schools within Boulder Valley School District No. Re2, with 235 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. That puts it 63% smaller than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 627 students.

Nederland Middle-Senior High School is one of 56 schools operated by Boulder Valley School District No. Re2, a district that caters to 27,988 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Nederland Middle-Senior High School lists that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Nederland Middle-Senior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.5%; this one delivers 43.1%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Boulder County put median household income runs about $103,994, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), Nederland Middle-Senior High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Nederland Elementary School, roughly 1.2 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 5 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Nederland Middle-Senior High School at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 51.4%.

Nederland Middle-Senior High School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 12%: 266 students in 2018 compared to 235 in 2025.

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