Overland High School

Overland High School is a senior high of roomy scale in AURORA, Colorado, one of the schools within Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah, enrolling 2,228 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 627 students each, so Overland High School sits 255% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 70 schools in Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah (52,099 students total), Overland High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Overland High School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 24% Black, 17% White, 8% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 124 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 65% of students at Overland High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Arapahoe County's rate of about 50%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Overland High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 27.4%; actual is 10.2%, a gap of -17.3 points.

In the broader community, census data for Arapahoe County shows median household income runs about $101,087, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Arapahoe County runs 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students), of which Overland High School is one.

Prairie Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Overland High School at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 15.5%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 6%: 2,377 students in 2018 compared to 2,228 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 37% to 45% across the same window.

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