Telluride School District No. R-1

The Telluride School District No. R-1 is a high-performing school district in Colorado, serving students from preschool through 12th grade across four schools: two elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school. The district is ranked 6th out of 115 school districts in the state and has earned a 5-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Telluride High School stands out as the district's top-performing school, ranked 25th out of 328 Colorado high schools and earning a 5-star rating. The school boasts impressive test scores, with 82% of 11th-graders proficient or better in SAT Reading and Writing, and 55% proficient or better in SAT Mathematics. Additionally, Telluride High School maintains a high graduation rate of 84.2% and a low dropout rate of 1.9%. Telluride Middle School also performs exceptionally well, ranking 76th out of 469 Colorado middle schools and earning a 4-star rating. The middle school's students demonstrate strong performance on CMAS tests, with 70.4% proficient or better in English Language Arts and 48.3% in Mathematics.

While the Telluride School District as a whole and its individual schools show consistently high performance, the district faces some challenges, such as high chronic absenteeism rates ranging from 27.7% to 27.7% across all schools. Additionally, the relatively low free and reduced lunch rates, ranging from 25.74% to 30.33%, suggest that the district serves a relatively affluent student population, which may impact the availability of resources and support for students from lower-income backgrounds. The district also has varying student-teacher ratios, with Telluride Elementary School having the lowest at 10.5 and Telluride Middle School having the highest at 32.1.