Westminister, COLORADO

May 28, 2008 - Jeremy Dennis, 25, drama teacher at Mountain Range High School was arrested May 23 after accusations surfaced that he sexually assaulted a student.

He was arrested on two counts of felony sex assault on a child by a person in a position of trust. He is also charged with sex assault in a pattern of abuse. He resigned before his arrest, saying he was taking another teaching position.

He is scheduled to appear in court on June 9.

[It doesn't say if the student was male or female.]
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WE FOUND: The school is rated "average" by the Colorado Department of Education. It is rated 5 (with 10 being highest) by GreatSchools.net

Look at the math scores for 10th graders: 17% at or above are proficient. Mind you, proficient means at or above grade level. No teacher or student profile information was available, however, a state report card for the school shows a stable student population with 18.4% eligible for a free lunch, which means there is no chronic and widespread poverty.

Of the 180 days in the school year, teachers' average days absent = 5.8%, which works out to be 10.4 days a year, with another 10 days where no teaching was scheduled to occur.

Oddly, the teacher/student ratio for 10th graders where math scores are the lowest (some 42% scoring unsatisfactory) is 15.3 The district has over $400,000,000 in bonded debt. It's amazing what people will pay for mediocrity, and with math scores that low, it's a sure bet no one question the expenditures in the future either.