Schools in Zip Code 80734

Zip code 80734 is home to three schools in the rural Holyoke School District No. Re-1J — Holyoke Elementary School (grades K–6, 281 students), Holyoke Senior High School (grades 7–12, 212 students), and Holyoke Alternative School (grades 7–12, 19 students) — serving a combined 512 students. The district is predominantly low-income, with roughly 6 in 10 students at the traditional schools eligible for free/reduced lunch.

The standout is Holyoke Senior High School, which posts a 97.1% graduation rate — far above the district’s 90.7% and the state’s 85.6% — and a dropout rate of just 0.7%. However, its academic proficiency is very low: only 12.8% of students are proficient in math and 26.9% in ELA. In contrast, Holyoke Elementary School shows a bright spot in 5th grade science, with 51.6% proficiency versus the state’s 36.1%, but lags badly in math, especially 4th grade (13.0% vs. 39.0% statewide). The elementary school’s state rank has improved from the 21st to the 38th percentile over three years. Meanwhile, Holyoke Alternative School serves a higher-risk population: its graduation rate is 66.7%, dropout rate 3.2%, and chronic absenteeism 23.1% — the highest in the district.

All three schools remain below Colorado’s 28.4% chronic absenteeism rate, though the alternative school’s rate is nearly 7 points higher than the elementary school’s. Notably, the district has no standalone middle school, so 7th and 8th graders are housed with high school students, and their test scores are among the lowest in the district. The traditional high school’s success with graduation despite majority low-income enrollment is a meaningful accomplishment. However, ranking data is incomplete: only the elementary school has recent state rankings, while the high school has none since 2018-2019 and the alternative school none at all. Parents should weigh the strong completion rates at the traditional high school against the persistently low subject proficiency across the district, and recognize that the alternative school offers a smaller but more challenged setting.