Summary:
Zip code 80723, located in the rural eastern plains of Colorado, contains exactly one high school: Brush High School, which serves grades 9 through 12 with an enrollment of 350 students and is part of School District No. Re-2 Brush. This small school operates with a student-teacher ratio of 14:1 and serves a student body in which more than half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting significant economic diversity in the community.
Brush High School stands out for its excellent graduation rate of 95.2% in 2024-2025, compared to the state average of 85.6%, and its dropout rate of just 1.0% is also below the state’s 1.6%. In terms of academic proficiency, the school’s greatest strength is 9th-grade reading and writing, where 71% of students scored proficient on the PSAT 9 in 2025-2026, exceeding the state’s 66%. However, mathematics proficiency is a critical weakness: only 8% of 11th graders were proficient in SAT math versus 32% statewide, and 9th and 10th grade math proficiency rates of 22% and 24% also trail state averages by roughly 15-18 points. Chronic absenteeism is 26.5%, slightly below the state’s 28.4% but above the district’s 23.5%.
Year-over-year trends are mixed. Between 2024-2025 and 2025-2026, PSAT 9 and PSAT 10 reading/writing improved significantly, rising from 58% to 71% and from 44% to 51% respectively, while 10th-grade math also improved from 17% to 24%. On the other hand, 11th-grade SAT scores declined sharply, with reading/writing dropping from 49% to 38% and math falling from 15% to 8%. The gap between reading and math proficiency is striking, exceeding 30 points at every grade level, suggesting that literacy instruction is far more effective than numeracy support. Despite low test scores and the economic challenges facing over half of its students, Brush High School successfully keeps nearly all students on track to graduate, ranking 247th out of 338 Colorado high schools in the 2025-2026 school year.
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