High · Colorado
Thornton High School
Free meals for allThornton High School, a public high school in Thornton, Colorado: grades 9–12, 1,439 students, 16.3 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Adams 12 Five Star Schools.
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
- 1,439
- Teachers (FTE)
- 88.0
- Students per teacher
- 16.3
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 52% of high schools in Colorado
Median 15.9 · 435 schools compared
More students per teacher than 63% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 86% of high schools in Colorado
Median 333 · 439 schools compared
Larger than 84% 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
- Large suburb
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Adams 12 Five Star Schools.
Location
- Address
- 9351 Washington Street, Thornton, CO 80229
- Phone
- (720)972-4800
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
New America School - ThorntonCharterAlternativeFree meals for all | 9–12 | 190 | 27.1 |
Northglenn High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,844 | 19.2 |
North Valley School for Young AdultsAlternativeFree meals for all | 9–12 | 102 | 22.2 |
Academy High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 399 | 17.7 |
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 |
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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