High Schools in Britton-Hecla School District 45-4

Britton-Hecla High School and Sunset Colony High School are the two high schools in Britton-Hecla School District 45-4, and both serve grades 9–12. Their listed enrollments are 127 and 8, respectively, for 135 students combined. The most important takeaway is that Britton-Hecla’s latest test results are mixed: its 11th graders were above the state in ELA, but below it in math and science.

Britton-Hecla stands out most clearly in ELA: on the 2025–26 ACT, 58% were proficient, compared with 48% statewide, a 9-point advantage. Its math result was 27% versus 34% statewide, 7 points lower; science was 42% versus 45%, 2 points lower. In 2024–25 Smarter Balanced results, the school was above the state in all three subjects: ELA by 11 points, math by 1 point, and science by 14 points. Its 2025–26 graduation rate was also strong at 97%, compared with 88% statewide and 94% districtwide. A school-to-school test ranking is not supported because Sunset Colony’s 2025–26 results are suppressed and no 2024–25 school-level results are supplied for it; the two years also use different assessments.

SchoolDigger rankings for Britton-Hecla rose from the 74th percentile in 2023–24 to the 79th in 2024–25, then fell to the 39th in 2025–26—a 40-point drop in ranking percentile, not a directly comparable test-score trend. Its rank changed from 35 of 166 schools to 79 of 130. For context when comparing school settings, 2024–25 student-teacher ratios were 13.6 at Britton-Hecla and 7.9 at Sunset Colony. The reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 17% at Britton-Hecla in 2024–25 and 70% at Sunset Colony in 2023–24; because they are from different years, they are observations rather than a same-year comparison.