Plainview Junior-Senior High School

Plainview Junior-Senior High School is an one-room-style secondary school in SHERIDAN LAKE, Colorado, part of Kiowa County School District No. Re-2. The school enrolls 11 students in grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 627 students each, so Plainview Junior-Senior High School sits 98% leaner than that benchmark.

Kiowa County School District No. Re-2 comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 32 students; Plainview Junior-Senior High School is among them.

On demographics, Plainview Junior-Senior High School records that the largest single group is White at 55%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 27% Hispanic, 18% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 89% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 2.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.9:1 average. An estimated 27% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Kiowa County's rate of about 63%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Kiowa County shows the typical household earns roughly $58,618 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Kiowa County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 243 students), of which Plainview Junior-Senior High School is one.

The closest other public school is Plainview Elementary School, roughly 0.0 miles away.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Plainview Junior-Senior High School has ticked down 52%, going from 23 students in 2018 to 11 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 91% to 55%. Class-load math has fell: from 5.6:1 in 2018 to 2.8:1 in 2025.

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