Roaring Fork High School

Roaring Fork High School, a small 9-12 campus in CARBONDALE, Colorado, part of Roaring Fork School District No. Re-1, enrolls 472 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 627 students per school, that is 25% smaller than typical.

Roaring Fork High School is one of 14 schools operated by Roaring Fork School District No. Re-1, a district that works with 5,839 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Roaring Fork High School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 48%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 47% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Garfield County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Roaring Fork High School shows 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 43% of students at Roaring Fork High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Roaring Fork High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.6%, the actual is 30.4%, a residual of -10.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Garfield County put median household earnings sit near $91,131, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Roaring Fork High School is one of 29 public schools in Garfield County (combined enrollment of about 10,790 students).

The closest other public school is Carbondale Middle School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Roaring Fork High School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.8%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Roaring Fork High School's enrollment has ticked up 23% since 2018, when it stood at 384 (now 472). The Hispanic share of enrollment decreased from 61% to 48% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.