High · Colorado
Southwest Open Charter School
CharterAlternativeFree meals for allSouthwest Open Charter School, a public high school in Cortez, Colorado: grades 9–12, 131 students, 12.5 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Montezuma-Cortez School District No. Re-1.
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
- 131
- Teachers (FTE)
- 10.5
- Students per teacher
- 12.5
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 71% of high schools in Colorado
Median 15.9 · 435 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 64% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 72% of high schools in Colorado
Median 333 · 439 schools compared
Smaller than 77% 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
- Charter school · Alternative
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Remote town
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Montezuma-Cortez School District No. Re-1.
Location
- Address
- 401 North Dolores Road, Cortez, CO 81321
- Phone
- (970)565-1150
- City or town
- Cortez
- County
- Montezuma 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Montezuma-Cortez High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 598 | 21.0 |
Dolores High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 186 | 11.5 |
Mancos High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 142 | 15.1 |
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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