Westgate Community School

Westgate Community School is a middle-of-the-pack all-grades campus in THORNTON, Colorado, run under Adams 12 Five Star Schools. The school instructs 540 students in grades K through 12.

Within Adams 12 Five Star Schools, which oversees 54 schools and 34,466 students, Westgate Community School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Westgate Community School logs that 52% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 27% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 8% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Adams County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.3:1 average. Roughly 38% of students at Westgate Community School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Adams County's rate of about 62%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Westgate Community School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.5%, the actual is 38.9%, a residual of -4.5 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Adams County) shows that median household earnings sit near $94,571, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Adams County's 171 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students), Westgate Community School is one campus in the mix.

Pathways Future Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Westgate Community School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Westgate Community School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 39.1%.

Westgate Community School operates from a residential location. As a public charter, Westgate Community School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Westgate Community School has climbed 6%, going from 508 students in 2018 to 540 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 68% to 52% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 today.

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