High · Colorado
Central High School
Free meals for allCentral High School, a public high school in Grand Junction, Colorado: grades 9–12, 1,352 students, 17.0 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Mesa County Valley School District No. 51.
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
- 1,352
- Teachers (FTE)
- 79.5
- Students per teacher
- 17.0
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 57% of high schools in Colorado
Median 15.9 · 435 schools compared
More students per teacher than 68% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 84% of high schools in Colorado
Median 333 · 439 schools compared
Larger than 82% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize suburb
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Mesa County Valley School District No. 51.
Location
- Address
- 3130 E1/2 Road, Grand Junction, CO 81504
- Phone
- (970)254-6200
- City or town
- Fruitvale
- County
- Mesa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Grand Mesa Youth Services CenterAlternative | 5–12 | — | — |
Grand Mesa Youth Services CenterAlternative | 5–12 | 18 | 10.3 |
R-5 High SchoolAlternativeFree meals for all | 9–12 | 207 | 12.4 |
Grand Junction High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,832 | 20.0 |
Palisade High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,073 | 18.3 |
Mesa Valley Community SchoolCharter | 6–12 | 178 | 14.9 |
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).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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