Plateau Valley Junior High School

Plateau Valley Junior High School is one of the one-room-style intermediate schools in COLLBRAN, Colorado, overseen by Plateau Valley School District No. 50 in the county of Mesa, with 41 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. That puts it 91% smaller than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 462 students.

Plateau Valley School District No. 50 in the county of Mesa runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 303 students. Plateau Valley Junior High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Plateau Valley Junior High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%); the rest comes out to 2% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Plateau Valley Junior High School logs 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Plateau Valley Junior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Plateau Valley Junior High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.5%.

Zooming out to the county, Mesa County reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,658 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Plateau Valley Junior High School is one of 57 public schools in Mesa County (combined enrollment of about 22,232 students).

Plateau Valley High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Plateau Valley Junior High School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 19.2%.

Plateau Valley Junior High School operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Plateau Valley Junior High School has shrank 49%, going from 81 students in 2018 to 41 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share grew from 83% to 95%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 26.4:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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