Loveland High School

Loveland High School operates as a sizable high school in LOVELAND, Colorado, overseen by Thompson School District R-2J. Current enrollment sits at 1,354 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 116% bigger than the state mean of about 627.

Within Thompson School District R-2J, which oversees 32 schools and 14,580 students, Loveland High School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Loveland High School logs that White students make up the majority at 68%; the rest consists of 26% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Larimer County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.9:1 average. Roughly 27% of students at Loveland High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Loveland High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.2%; this one comes in at 32.1%, -18.0 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, census data for Larimer County shows median household income runs about $93,765, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Larimer County's 94 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,159 students), Loveland High School is one campus in the mix.

Lincoln Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Loveland High School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Loveland High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 30.8%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Loveland High School's enrollment has fell 17% since 2018, when it stood at 1,628 (now 1,354). Hispanic enrollment moved from 20% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.5:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 in 2025.

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