Schools · Sawpit

Sawpit, CO schools

Sawpit’s public schools score above Colorado’s averages: 51% of students are proficient in reading against 47% statewide, and 92% of high schoolers graduate on time against 81.7%. Kids attend Telluride Elementary School through grade 2, then Telluride Intermediate School, Telluride Middle School and Telluride High School.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

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Sawpit’s School Grade: A

The public schools Sawpit’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 86% of Colorado’s districts on state tests and graduation.

ATest scoresA-Graduation
Colorado school districts we grade (161)Better than 86%
Lower resultsHigher results
Good confidence. Built on 363 tested students and a graduating class of 69; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
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.
School path

Where Sawpit kids go to school

Grades PK–2
Telluride Elementary School 140 students · Telluride Telluride School District R-1
Grades 3–6
BTelluride Intermediate School 237 students · Telluride Telluride School District R-1
Grades 7–8
B+Telluride Middle School 124 students · Telluride Telluride School District R-1
Grades 9–12
ATelluride High School 298 students · Telluride Telluride School District R-1

Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.

Test scores · 2020–21

Above the state in reading

Reading (grades PK–12, Telluride School District R-1)51%
State average 47%
Math (grades PK–12, Telluride School District R-1)41%
State average 30.4%
Graduation · class of 2020

92% graduate on time

Graduation rate
92%
CO: 81.7%
Graduating class
69
students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.

Districts

The district serving Sawpit

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Within reach

Colleges near Sawpit

There’s no college within 30 miles of Sawpit. The closest is Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO, 50.2 miles away.

Straight-line distance from the center of Sawpit. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus.

We don’t have any schools located in Sawpit yet.

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