Public school / Other / Charter
The Pinnacle Charter School
Federal Heights, Colorado
- NCES ID
- 080002001915
- District
- State Charter School Institute
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
The Pinnacle Charter School is a public other school in Federal Heights, Colorado, run by State Charter School Institute. It enrols 1,940 students — the 1995th largest of 1,965 public schools in Colorado.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
1,940
Teachers
114.0
Students per teacher
17.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
73.4%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within State Charter School Institute
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1The Pinnacle Charter School1,940 students
- 2Academy of Charter Schools1,890 students
- 3Colorado Early Colleges Fort Collins1,036 students
- 4Colorado Early Colleges Douglas County1,004 students
- 5Thomas Maclaren State Charter School927 students
- 6Caprock Academy899 students
- 7Ascent Classical Academy Douglas County862 students
- 8Global Village Academy - North832 students
- Enrollment+427.2%
- Teachers+375.0%
- Students per teacher+6.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+66.1%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory