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Nucla, Colorado - 4 schools
An equity score of 80/100 ranks West End School District No. Re-2 #11 of 142 districts in Colorado (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $16,588 per pupil, West End School District No. Re-2 ranks #58 of 180 Colorado districts by per-pupil spending (Colorado districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
260
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$16,588
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
West End School District No. Re-2 operates 4 public schools serving 260 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Colorado. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 1 high, 1 middle schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Montrose County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,588 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 180 Colorado districts by per-pupil spending. See how Colorado compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 18.1% local, 75.2% state, and 6.7% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 80/100, ranked #11 of 142 in Colorado against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 18:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 49.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 87.8% White, 8.9% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Nucla High School, with a diversity index of 35.7/100.
Its largest campus is Naturita Elementary School, enrolling 161 students (58% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Paradox Valley Charter School, at 18 students, a 9x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Naturita Elementary School accounts for 57.9% of all West End School District No. Re-2 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of West End School District No. Re-2 a distant remainder — means West End School District No. Re-2-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
West End School District No. Re-2 school enrollment varies 8.9× across entities
West End School District No. Re-2 school enrollment ranges from 18 students (lowest) to 161 students (highest), a spread of 143 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
West End School District No. Re-2 student-counselor ratio is 18:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
West End School District No. Re-2 chronic absenteeism rate is 49.5% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to West End School District No. Re-2's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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