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Northridge High School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Northridge High School
Northridge High School is one of the big secondary schools in GREELEY, Colorado, part of GreeleySchool District No. 6 in the county of Weld and Sta, with 1,322 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 111% bigger than the state mean of about 627.
Across the 34 schools in GreeleySchool District No. 6 in the county of Weld and Sta (22,917 students total), Northridge High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, Northridge High School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 76% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 18% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 31% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.9:1 average. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Weld County's rate of about 47%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Northridge High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 25.2%; actual is 11.2%, a gap of -14.0 points.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Weld County indicate median household income runs about $97,097, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Northridge High School is one of 116 public schools in Weld County (combined enrollment of about 61,274 students).
Nearest neighbor: Winograd K-8 Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Northridge High School. On composite proficiency, Northridge High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 30.7%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 9%: 1,216 students in 2018 compared to 1,322 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 26% to 18%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 in 2025.
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