Widefield High School

Set in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Widefield High School is a large secondary school, one of the schools within School District No. 3 in the county of El Paso and State of. It hosts 1,193 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 627 students per school, that is 90% bigger than typical.

School District No. 3 in the county of El Paso and State of comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 9,290 students; Widefield High School is among them.

Demographically, Widefield High School reports that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 35% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 10% Black. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 39% of students at Widefield High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Widefield High School is in the bottom 10% of Colorado public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 42.9%; Widefield High School posts 23.8%, -19.1 points below that line.

In the area at large, El Paso County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,363, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Widefield High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Discovery High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Widefield High School. On composite proficiency, Widefield High School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.5%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Widefield High School's enrollment has decreased 12% since 2018, when it stood at 1,357 (now 1,193). Hispanic enrollment moved from 29% to 35% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.