Castle Rock, CO schools
Castle Rock’s public schools score well above Colorado’s averages: 62% of students are proficient in reading against 47% statewide, and 91% of high schoolers graduate on time against 81.7%. Kids attend one of 9 schools through grade 6, then Mesa Middle School or Castle Rock Middle School and Castle View High School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Castle Rock’s School Grade: A
The public schools Castle Rock’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 92% of Colorado’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Colorado’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Colorado only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Colorado with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where Castle Rock kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Well above the state in reading
91% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #23 of 142 CO towns →
The district serving Castle Rock
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Castle Rock
There’s no college in Castle Rock, but 23 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Rocky Vista University in Parker, 13.1 miles away.
13 more within 30 miles.
Straight-line distance from the center of Castle Rock. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.
All 19 schools in Castle Rock
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.