South High School

South High School is a secondary school of moderately sized scale in PUEBLO, Colorado, one of the schools within Pueblo School District No. 60 in the county of Pueblo and, caters to 795 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 27% bigger than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 627 students.

Pueblo School District No. 60 in the county of Pueblo and comprises 34 schools with combined enrollment of 14,351 students; South High School is among them.

Demographically, South High School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. Other groups include 25% White, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Pueblo County as a whole is about 42% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.4:1. The state averages around 16.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 73% of students at South High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, South High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.3%; this one delivers 13.2%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Pueblo County indicate median household earnings sit near $64,010, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. South High School is one of 66 public schools in Pueblo County (combined enrollment of about 32,254 students).

Nearest neighbor: D60 Online School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, South High School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 15.3%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. South High School's enrollment has contracted 25% since 2018, when it stood at 1,063 (now 795). White enrollment moved from 33% to 25% across the same window.

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