Pathways Future Center

Pathways Future Center is a low-enrollment high school in Adams 12 Five Star Schools, located in THORNTON, Colorado. The school teaches grades 6 through 12 and enrolls 386 students. The school is 38% below the average for high schools in Colorado.

Adams 12 Five Star Schools runs Pathways Future Center along with 53 other schools, enrolling 34,466 students in total.

More than half of enrollment at Pathways Future Center is Hispanic: 70%. Enrollment also includes 23% White, 4% Black, and 2% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 27 points above the 43% share among Adams County residents. The diversity index for Pathways Future Center is 45%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

With 19.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 19.5:1. Statewide, high schools in Colorado average 16.9:1. Roughly 73% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Adams County report 62%.

In the surrounding county, Adams County, median household income comes to about $94,571, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 29% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. The county's public schools total 171, with about 87,938 students.

Westgate Community School, about 0.4 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

In the federal locale system, Pathways Future Center is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. Pathways Future Center carries a virtual school designation in NCES data.

Enrollment went from 392 in 2020-21 to 386 in 2024-25, a change of 6 students. Federal data show the ratio falling from 23.1:1 to 19.5:1.

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