Sierra High School

Sierra High School is a high school of mid-sized scale in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, operated by Harrison School District No. 2 in the county of El Paso an, teacheing 843 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 34% larger than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 627 students.

Harrison School District No. 2 in the county of El Paso an comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 11,938 students; Sierra High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Sierra High School lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 56%. The remainder looks like 17% Black, 15% White, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Sierra High School has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against El Paso County (around 42%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sierra High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.8%, the actual is 13.6%, a residual of -9.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for El Paso County shows median household income runs about $90,363, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, El Paso County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), of which Sierra High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Centennial Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sierra High School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 18.4%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sierra High School has expanded 7%, going from 785 students in 2018 to 843 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 48% to 56%. Class-load math has widened: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Sierra High School community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.