Summit Academy

Set in BROOMFIELD, Colorado, Summit Academy is a rural-scale senior high, part of Jefferson County School District No. R-1. It serves 66 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 89% below the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 627 students.

Across the 148 schools in Jefferson County School District No. R-1 (74,935 students total), Summit Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Summit Academy logs that 76% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 9% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school employs 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 30.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.9:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate median household earnings sit near $110,656, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Summit Academy is one of 168 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students).

The closest other public school is Jefferson Academy Elementary, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Summit Academy operates from an outer-ring location. As a public charter, Summit Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Members of the school community can share what they know.