High · Colorado
Academy High School
Free meals for allAcademy High School, a public high school in Thornton, Colorado: grades 9–12, 399 students, 17.7 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Mapleton School District No. 1 in the county of Adams & St.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 399
- Teachers (FTE)
- 22.5
- Students per teacher
- 17.7
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 61% of high schools in Colorado
Median 15.9 · 435 schools compared
More students per teacher than 72% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 53% of high schools in Colorado
Median 333 · 439 schools compared
Smaller than 51% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large suburb
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Mapleton School District No. 1 in the county of Adams & St.
Location
- Address
- 8970 York St, Thornton, CO 80229
- Phone
- (303)853-1900
- City or town
- Thornton
- County
- Adams County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Mapleton Expeditionary School of the ArtsFree meals for all | 9–12 | 393 | 16.9 |
Mapleton Early Career PreparationFree meals for all | 9–12 | 306 | 19.3 |
North Valley School for Young AdultsAlternativeFree meals for all | 9–12 | 102 | 22.2 |
New America School - ThorntonCharterAlternativeFree meals for all | 9–12 | 190 | 27.1 |
Thornton High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,439 | 16.3 |
Global Leadership AcademyFree meals for all | 9–12 | 400 | 23.9 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
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