Basalt Middle School

Located at 51 SCHOOL STREET, in BASALT, Colorado, Basalt Middle School is a tight-knit junior high that teaches 367 students (grades 5 through 8), run under Roaring Fork School District No. Re-1. Compared to the state average of about 462 students per school, that is 21% below typical.

Roaring Fork School District No. Re-1 comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 5,839 students; Basalt Middle School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Basalt Middle School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 61% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 37% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Basalt Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 56% of students at Basalt Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Basalt Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.5%.

Across the wider county, Pitkin County reports that median household earnings sit near $102,645, about 63% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Basalt Middle School is one of 7 public schools in Pitkin County (combined enrollment of about 2,365 students).

Nearest neighbor: Basalt Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Basalt Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Basalt Middle School at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 33.8%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Basalt Middle School's enrollment has shrank 23% since 2018, when it stood at 475 (now 367). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 51% to 61%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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