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Delta County Joint District No. 50, CO: schools, enrollment and spending
Delta County Joint District No. 50 runs 16 public schools with 4,396 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 16.7 students per teacher is about the same as the Colorado figure of 16.7.
At a glance
- Schools
- 16
- Students
- 4,396
- Teachers (FTE)
- 263
- Students per teacher
- 16.7
- CO: 16.7 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 145 West 4th Street, Delta, CO 81416
- Phone
- (970)874-4438
- County
- Delta County
- Locale
- Town: Distant
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 0803330
- State district ID
- CO-0870
- Total staff (FTE)
- 707
- School counselors (FTE)
- 16.0About 275 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 25.0
- Charter schools
- 1
Students per teacher compared
This district16.7
Colorado16.7
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (4,793), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $62.3 million
- Federal revenue
- $11.1 million
- State revenue
- $32.8 million
- Local revenue
- $18.4 million
- Total spending
- $60.9 million
- Spending per pupil
- $12,715
- Salaries
- $31.0 million50.9% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $5.2 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 17.8%
- State: 52.7%
- Local: 29.5%
Colorado overall
- Federal: 11.9%
- State: 37.4%
- Local: 50.7%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$12,715
Colorado$15,467
United States$16,826
Schools in Delta County Joint District No. 50
By level: 4 high, 3 middle, 7 elementary, 1 prekindergarten, 1 other. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Backpack Early Learning AcademyCEP school | Prekindergarten | PK | 188 | 188.0 |
| Cedaredge Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 346 | 19.2 |
| Cedaredge High SchoolCEP school | High | 9 to 12 | 280 | 16.5 |
| Cedaredge Middle SchoolCEP school | Middle | 6 to 8 | 154 | 17.1 |
| Delta Academy of Applied Learning | Middle | 5 to 8 | 25 | 25.0 |
| Delta High SchoolCEP school | High | 9 to 12 | 626 | 16.1 |
| Delta Middle SchoolCEP school | Middle | 6 to 8 | 498 | 18.4 |
| Garnet Mesa Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 488 | 16.3 |
| Grand Mesa Choice AcademyCEP school | High | 7 to 12 | 68 | 13.6 |
| Hotchkiss Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 8 | 297 | 14.1 |
| Lincoln Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 371 | 15.5 |
| North Fork High SchoolCEP school | High | 9 to 12 | 265 | 14.7 |
| North Fork Montessori @ CrawfordCEP school | Elementary | PK to 6 | 120 | 15.0 |
| North Fork School of Integrated StudiesCEP school | Elementary | PK to 6 | 112 | 16.0 |
| Paonia K-8CEP school | Elementary | PK to 8 | 247 | 15.4 |
| Vision Charter AcademyCharter | Other | K to 12 | 311 | 19.4 |
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.