Summary:
Colfax has three schools in Ridgeview CUSD 19, serving preschool through grade 12 and enrolling 520 students altogether. In the 2025–2026 all-grades IAR results, Ridgeview Elementary School and Ridgeview Junior High School averaged 40% proficient in English language arts and 28% in math, compared with state averages of 56% and 40%. The most important concern is that both schools’ results were below the state, with the largest shared weakness in ELA.
Ridgeview High School stands out for graduation: its 2025–2026 rate was 94%, 4 percentage points above the state’s 90%. Ridgeview Junior High School also had a bright spot in grade 8 science, with 53% proficient, 1 point above the state. In the all-grades comparison, Ridgeview Elementary School led junior high in math, 32% to 24%, an 8-point difference, though both were below the state. The sharpest shortfall was junior-high grade 8 ELA: 37% proficient, 26 points below the state. High-school grade 11 ACT science was also notably low, 37%, or 11 points below the state.
Recent changes are mixed: junior high improved in all-grades ELA by 12 points and math by 5, while elementary math rose 2 points and ELA fell 6. The combined math gap with the state narrowed by 2 points, but the ELA gap widened by 1. Science results vary by grade: grade 9 PreACT was 9 points above the state, while grade 10 PreACT and grade 11 ACT were below. SchoolDigger ranks the elementary, junior high, and high school at the 31st, 33rd, and 46th percentiles, respectively; junior high rose 6 percentile points since 2023–2024. Reported student-teacher ratios were 11.2, 13.3, and 9.2, respectively. For context, free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 53% at elementary and 39% at junior high in sy 2024–2025, and 28% at high school in sy 2023–2024.
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