SOAR Academy

SOAR Academy operates as a tiny high school in ENGLEWOOD, Colorado, part of Sheridan School District No. 2. Current enrollment sits at 78 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 88% leaner than the state mean of about 627.

Within Sheridan School District No. 2, which oversees 5 schools and 1,018 students, SOAR Academy is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, SOAR Academy logs that nearly all students (85%) are Hispanic; the rest looks like 13% White, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 22% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Arapahoe County (around 50%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Arapahoe County indicate median household income runs about $101,087, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Arapahoe County's 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students), SOAR Academy is one campus in the mix.

Early Childhood Education Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 17%: 94 students in 2018 compared to 78 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 78% to 85%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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