Outer Range

Located at 930 COLORADO AVE, in MONTROSE, Colorado, Outer Range is a rural-scale multi-level school that works with 71 students (grades pre-K through 12), operated by Montrose County School District Re-1J. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 523 students each, so Outer Range sits 86% smaller than that benchmark.

Outer Range is one of 15 schools operated by Montrose County School District Re-1J, a district that educates 5,977 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Outer Range logs that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 11% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.3:1 average. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Montrose County (around 56%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

In the broader community, census data for Montrose County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,120 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Montrose County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,237 students), of which Outer Range is one.

The closest other public school is Early Childhood Center, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Outer Range operates from a town-based location.

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