Montezuma-Cortez High School
Public · Grades 9–12 · 598 students
Southwest Open Charter School
401 North Dolores Road, Cortez, CO 81321
Grades
9–12
High
Students
131
Enrolled 2024–25
Students per teacher
12.5 : 1
Full-time teachers
District
Montezuma-Cortez School District No. Re-1
Montezuma County
Not graded
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About Southwest Open Charter School
Southwest Open Charter School is a charter high school in Cortez, Colorado, serving grades 9–12. It is part of Montezuma-Cortez School District No. Re-1. The school is located in a remote town in Montezuma County.
In the 2024–25 school year, 131 students were enrolled, with about 12.5 students for every full-time teacher. That ratio is smaller than the typical Colorado high school (15.6 students per teacher). As a charter school, it is publicly funded and tuition-free, but operates independently of the local district under a charter from Montezuma-Cortez School District No. Re-1.
Grades & enrollment
Students per grade, 2024–25Grades 9–12
Location & nearby schools
School details
- Type
- Charter School · What this means
- Level
- High
- Grades offered
- 9–12
- Enrollment (2024–25)
- 131 students
- Students per teacher
- 12.5 to 1
- Charter school
- Yes
- Charter authorizer
- Montezuma-Cortez School District No. Re-1
- Magnet school
- No
- Locale
- Town — Remote
- School district
- Montezuma-Cortez School District No. Re-1
- County
- Montezuma County
- NCES school ID
- 080309001692
Schools near Southwest Open Charter School
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Mancos High School
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School data comes from the U.S. Department of Education: the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDGE school locations (2024–25) and Private School Survey (2023–24), the Civil Rights Data Collection (2023–24), and EDFacts (test results 2021–22; graduation and chronic absenteeism 2022–23), plus other public sources. Please contact the school to confirm enrollment, programs, and other details. How we source data.