Hinsdale County RE 1 (1380)
614 N. SILVER STREET
LAKE CITY, CO 81235
80
Total Students Served
1
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Superintendent:
Rebecca Hall
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About Hinsdale County RE 1 (1380)
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Hinsdale County RE 1
2025-2026
Hinsdale County School District RE-1 serves 80 Preschool through 12th-grade students within a single building: Lake City Community School. The town of Lake City sits at 8,671 feet above sea level in the heart of the San Juan Mountains of Southwest Colorado. Over 96% of our county consists of public lands, and our tourism-based economy draws visitors who enjoy unparalleled mountain scenery and tranquility as well as outdoor recreation, including hiking, mountain biking, jeeping, fishing, river an…
d lake sports, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, skiing, ice climbing, and hunting. Hinsdale County is identified by the US Geological Survey (USGS) as the most remote county in the lower 48 states. Our District's mission states, ?Hinsdale County School District RE-1 is committed to providing a personalized, high-quality, safe, and inclusive educational environment where every student can thrive.? The district?s 2025?2030 Strategic Plan centers on five key priorities: Raising student achievement through personalized learning; Preparing graduates for college, career, and life; Fostering student engagement and well-being; Developing and retaining excellent staff; and Managing resources responsibly for long-term sustainability. In addition to providing a high-quality education, our District emphasizes developing a "portrait of a graduate." Whether a student's post-secondary path is workforce readiness, college, military service, or another aspiration, we aim to equip students with the skills they need to be fully prepared for the future they choose. The Lake City Community School instructional staff includes 15 teachers, two instructional aides, one Special Education Coordinator, and one Counselor. Our Preschool teacher and aide instruct the combined three- and four-year-old Preschool classroom. Three teachers lead the combined Kindergarten/First Grade, Second/Third Grade, and Fourth/Fifth Grade classrooms. At the Secondary School, teachers provide subject-specific instruction for combined Middle School (6th?8th Grade) and High School (9th?12th Grade) classes, with the exception of Mathematics. Each grade level attends its own math class period, and one teacher provides instruction for all students in Grades 7 through 12. During the instructional day, elementary and middle school students attend Art, P.E., and STEM ancillary classes. High School students have the opportunity to select from a set of electives that rotate from year to year based on student interests. Recent elective courses have included Art, Drama, Spanish III, Renewable Energy, Creative Writing, Psychology, and Media Studies. Secondary School athletic and extracurricular program opportunities include Cross Country, Basketball, Track and Field, Knowledge Bowl, and Student Council. We received our first state titles in Track and Field in 2016 and 2017 and, with the exception of 2019, have sent at least one student to the state track and field competition since 2012! Our High School varsity Knowledge Bowl team competed in the state competition in the 2024-2025 year. Our Elementary School athletics program includes options for instruction and intramural competition in basketball and soccer. While our small student numbers allow for strong differentiation and individualized support based on data analysis, these small numbers limit our ability to provide publicly available data. However, broadly speaking, the following characteristics define our district: Enrollment rebounded from 2020 lows as students returned from distance learning and homeschooling, peaking in 2022?2023. Current K-12 enrollment sits at 72 students, which is slightly above 2023?2024 (67 students) and 2024?2025 (67 students) levels. Our rolling average of FRL eligibility is 40% for the three-year period ending in the 2024-2025 school year. Our non-white population has been approximately 12.1% over the three-year period ending in the 2024-2025 school year. Our dropout rate during the combined three-year period is 0%. The percentage of our student population on an IEP has been, on average, 14% over the same three-year period. Gunnison Watershed School District serves as the District administrative unit for our Special Education and Gifted and Talented population. Our low student-to-counselor ratio (1:80) is also well below the ratio recommended by the American School Counselor Association (1:250). Individual career and academic planning occurs consistently with all middle and high school students beginning in 6th grade. Our district prioritizes providing alternative academic options for students in addition to traditional post-secondary education pathways. This continued focus will sustain strong graduation and matriculation metrics while supporting our students approaching graduation with the tools required to pursue a myriad of post-secondary options. Early Literacy instruction in our elementary school is a relative strength. We review DIBELS data and Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) benchmark testing results regularly to determine interventions that will successfully build a strong reading foundation that will follow students throughout their lives while also contributing to increasing graduation rates. Our District continues to prioritize a basic student need: providing every child with a free, nutritious breakfast and hot lunch each school day. Nutritious meals improve student engagement and increases nutritional equity to our diverse student populations, contributing to improvements in academics and graduation rates. Our leadership and UIP team determined the goals and strategies described in this UIP after analyzing several data sources, including trends in Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) assessment scores, MAP benchmark results, Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS), Teaching Strategies GOLD data, goals from the District Performance Framework (DPF), and CDE's District Dashboard. In our reflections, we have considered the effects of chronic absenteeism, parent involvement, staff goal-setting, and school climate. We will also incorporate our district?s Healthy Kids Colorado Survey results as part of our internal narrative. While our small student population allows us to analyze individual test scores to develop customized learning plans, we also face the challenges inherent in identifying and reporting trends in smaller datasets. Our District often receives an "Insufficient Data" rating across many categories due to low n-counts. Although most data may be publicly reported at the 1-year or 3-year level, we often do not reach the required rolling (n>16) student count minimums to produce even three-year Achievement and Growth scores for Elementary, Middle, and High School. Our process for creating our Unified Improvement Plan has included a Unified Improvement Planning Team composed of teachers and an administrator. These parties have met at designated dates and times to review data and develop strategies. The planning team has met with all teachers, including our special education teacher and school counselor. During these team meetings, administration and faculty collaborated to review multiple assessment data points, identify trends, and link improvement goals with instructional content and staff accountability measures. Externally, our planning team has presented recommendations and solicited input from our District-School Accountability Committee and the Hinsdale County School Board.
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