Public school / High
Vista Ridge High School
Colorado Springs, Colorado
- NCES ID
- 080387006408
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Vista Ridge High School is a public high school in Colorado Springs, Colorado, run by El Paso County Colorado School District 49. It enrols 1,587 students — the 3336th 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
1,587
Teachers
70.0
Students per teacher
22.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
26.5%
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 El Paso County Colorado School District 49
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.
- 1Goal Academy5,690 students
- 2Banning Lewis Ranch Academy1,600 students
- 3Vista Ridge High School1,587 students
- 4Sand Creek High School1,307 students
- 5Falcon High School1,248 students
- 6Rocky Mountain Classical Academy1,132 students
- 7Falcon Middle School937 students
- 8Skyview Middle School919 students
- Enrollment+331.3%
- Teachers+191.7%
- Students per teacher+41.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−40.0%
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