Burlington High School

Burlington High School is a high school of rural-scale scale in BURLINGTON, Colorado, overseen by Burlington Public School District No. RE-6J, instructing 216 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 627 students per school, that is 66% below typical.

Burlington Public School District No. RE-6J comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 742 students; Burlington High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Burlington High School lists that 48% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 46% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Kit Carson County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Kit Carson County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Burlington High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 28.0%; this one comes in at 8.8%, -19.2 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Kit Carson County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $70,259 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Kit Carson County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,342 students), Burlington High School is one campus in the mix.

Burlington Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Burlington High School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 32.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Burlington High School has fell 5%, going from 228 students in 2018 to 216 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 53% to 46% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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