Renaissance Secondary School

Set in CASTLE ROCK, Colorado, Renaissance Secondary School is a modestly sized senior high, run under Douglas County School District No. Re 1. It teaches 441 students across grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 627 students each, so Renaissance Secondary School sits 30% below that benchmark.

Across the 89 schools in Douglas County School District No. Re 1 (61,550 students total), Renaissance Secondary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Renaissance Secondary School reports that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 13% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Renaissance Secondary School lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 17% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Renaissance Secondary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.1%; this one delivers 55.4%.

Zooming out to the county, Douglas County reports that median household income runs about $149,594, 62% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Douglas County runs 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,841 students), of which Renaissance Secondary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Early Childhood Center, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Renaissance Secondary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 51.1%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site. Renaissance Secondary School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 24%: 355 students in 2018 compared to 441 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.

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