Fruita Monument High School

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Fruita Monument High School

School type	Public secondary school
Established	May 20, 1910?
Principal	Jody Mimmack
Faculty	76
Students	1750
Colors	Blue and white
Mascot	Wildcat
District	Mesa County Valley School District 51
Location	Fruita, Colorado United States
Website	http://fmhs.mesa.k12.co.us/

Fruita Monument High School is a high school located in Fruita, Colorado, just a few miles from Colorado National Monument. It is part of the Mesa County Valley School District 51.

As of 2006, Fruita Monument enrolls about 1750 students. It is one of the largest high schools in the Grand Valley, as well as one of the highest performing academically in the area ^[1].

The student-teacher ratio is approximately 22:1.

Fruita Monument receives new students primarily from its two feeder schools, Fruita Middle School (in Fruita) and Redlands Middle School (in the Redlands of Grand Junction). These two feeder schools are nearly 20 miles apart, and are significantly different. Fruita is known as a small farming community, while the Redlands is a larger, more urbanized area. These differences create a diversity at Fruita Monument that is unique to other schools in the region. Recently an 8th and 9th grade school known as the Fruita 8/9 School was built to handle the growing number of students from Redlands.