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Prairie Vista Youth Services Center

BRIGHTON · CO · School District 27J · Public · K-12 combined

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Programs & features
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
  • 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 13% by test-taker volume

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Prairie Vista Youth Services Center compares for families

What families should know about Prairie Vista Youth Services Center.

  • LocallyCO students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Eagle Ridge Academy, Brighton High School, Innovations & Options and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21

Bottom 13% by test-taker volume

50th 90th
SAT/ACT test-takers
9
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
30.0
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12
Compared against
18,426
US high schools reporting SAT/ACT participation

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.

👩‍🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC

Teacher experience & reliability

% inexperienced teachers (1st-2nd yr)
0%
Strong: experienced corps. New teachers rotate through but most have ≥3 years in.
% chronic teacher absence (≥10 days/yr)
25.0%
Elevated. Teacher absence directly affects classroom continuity and student outcomes.

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.

🏛️ Federal Title I context

Title I Schoolwide eligible

≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program

43.8%
FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).
0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of +19.0%/year, projecting from 2024's 32 students:

2025
38
2027
54
2029
76

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Nearby high schools — the local competition

The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
Eagle Ridge Academy
BRIGHTON
Public · charter 2.5 593 +12.7%
Brighton High School
BRIGHTON
Public 4.1 1,733 -7.9%
Innovations & Options
BRIGHTON
Public 4.1 235 +18.1%
Elmwood Baptist Academy
Brighton
Private 5.6 80 -25.9%
The STEAD School
COMMERCE CITY
Public · charter 6.7 421 +169.9%
Prairie View High School
HENDERSON
Public 7.2 1,809 +4.9%
Rocky Mountain Lutheran High School
Commerce City
Private 7.5 54 -6.9%
Fort Lupton High School
FORT LUPTON
Public 7.6 721 -0.7%

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