Peetz Junior-Senior High School

Peetz Junior-Senior High School operates as a micro-enrollment high school in PEETZ, Colorado, run under School District No. Re-5 Plateau. Current enrollment sits at 90 students spanning grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 86% smaller than the state mean of about 627.

Within School District No. Re-5 Plateau, which oversees 2 schools and 204 students, Peetz Junior-Senior High School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Peetz Junior-Senior High School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%); the rest looks like 11% Hispanic, 3% Native American. That composition is broadly in line with Logan County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.9:1 average. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Logan County (around 45%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Peetz Junior-Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.9%, the actual is 38.3%, a residual of -11.6 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Logan County put median household income runs about $51,829, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Peetz Junior-Senior High School is one of 13 public schools in Logan County (combined enrollment of about 2,649 students).

Peetz Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Peetz Junior-Senior High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 50.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Peetz Junior-Senior High School's enrollment has rose 25% since 2018, when it stood at 72 (now 90). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 3% to 11%.

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