Public school / High
Welte Education Center
Fountain, Colorado
- NCES ID
- 080408000096
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Welte Education Center is a public high school in Fountain, Colorado, run by Fountain School District No. 8 in the County of El Paso An. It enrols 106 students — the 86752nd 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
106
Teachers
13.0
Students per teacher
8.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
60.4%
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 Fountain School District No. 8 in the County of El Paso An
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.
- 1Fountain-Fort Carson High School2,040 students
- 2Fountain Middle School1,046 students
- 3Weikel Elementary School754 students
- 4Carson Middle School659 students
- 5Mesa Elementary School645 students
- 6Patriot Elementary School564 students
- 7Jordahl Elementary School534 students
- 8Abrams Elementary School419 students
- Enrollment−71.2%
- Teachers−45.8%
- Students per teacher−48.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+36.7%
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