Otis Junior-Senior High School

Set in OTIS, Colorado, Otis Junior-Senior High School is a micro-enrollment secondary school, part of Otis School District No. R-3. It educates 102 students across grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 627 students each, so Otis Junior-Senior High School sits 84% smaller than that benchmark.

Otis School District No. R-3 comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 192 students; Otis Junior-Senior High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Otis Junior-Senior High School lists that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 11% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Otis Junior-Senior High School records 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.9:1, putting Otis Junior-Senior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Otis Junior-Senior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.8%; this one delivers 20.6%.

In the area at large, census data for Washington County shows median household income runs about $67,167, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Washington County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 878 students), Otis Junior-Senior High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Otis Elementary School, roughly 0.0 miles away. On composite proficiency, Otis Junior-Senior High School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 26.4%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 12%: 116 students in 2018 compared to 102 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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