High · Colorado
Riverdale Ridge High School
Free meals for allRiverdale Ridge High School, a public high school in Thornton, Colorado: grades 9–12, 1,784 students, 21.7 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of School District 27J.
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
- 1,784
- Teachers (FTE)
- 82.2
- Students per teacher
- 21.7
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 87% of high schools in Colorado
Median 15.9 · 435 schools compared
More students per teacher than 88% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 91% of high schools in Colorado
Median 333 · 439 schools compared
Larger than 90% 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
- Run by
- School District 27J
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with School District 27J.
Location
- Address
- 13380 Yosemite Street, Thornton, CO 80602
- Phone
- (303)655-6800
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9–12 | 1,966 | 20.1 | |
Prairie View High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,809 | 20.7 |
Brighton High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,733 | 19.3 |
27J Online AcademyFully virtual | 6–12 | 336 | 16.0 |
Innovations & OptionsAlternative | 6–12 | 235 | 13.7 |
Pathways Future CenterAlternativeFully virtualFree meals for all | 6–12 | 386 | 19.5 |
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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