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Enrollment
530
Middle
DISTRICT 501 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·THOMPSON SCHOOL DISTRICT R-2J·NCES 080540000929
Bill Reed Middle School
370 WEST 4TH STREET, LOVELAND, CO 80537 · (970) 613-7200 · Larimer County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL530 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 13% of Colorado public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public middle schools
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
249 students
DISTRICT 37% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 202 | 38% |
| Grade 7 | 152 | 29% |
| Grade 8 | 176 | 33% |
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
32.3%
CO avg 44.9% . +1.7pp since 2023
Math
17.0%
CO avg 36.1% . -3.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.3% | 17.0% |
| 2023-24 | 30.6% | 20.7% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
24.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.2%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 38% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bill Reed Middle School
Bill Reed Middle School's state test result (24.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bill Reed Middle School this school | 530 | 47.0% | 24.6% |
| Boltz Middle School FORT COLLINS | 551 | 49.2% | 38.8% |
| Columbine Middle School MONTROSE | 491 | 50.7% | 30.3% |
| West Middle School GRAND JUNCTION | 468 | 52.1% | 33.0% |
| Holmes Middle School COLORADO SPRINGS | 600 | 45.5% | 45.6% |
| Escalante Middle School DURANGO | 461 | 42.7% | 41.7% |
Matched among Colorado middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bill Reed Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Larimer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.6% | #163 of 241 | #13 of 13 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.0% | #172 of 244 ▼ 31 | #13 of 13 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.3% | #169 of 246 ▼ 1 | #13 of 13 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 530 | #108 of 278 | #8 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #66 of 227 | #5 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.6% | #101 of 227 | #3 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.0% | #130 of 246 | #4 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.6% | #91 of 169 | #6 of 12 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
530
-94 (-15%) vs 2020
+2% since 1990-91, when it was 522
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 16.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 530 | 36.8 | 14.4:1 | 47% (249) |
| 2023-24 | 514 | 37.1 | 13.9:1 | 57% (295) |
| 2022-23 | 511 | 35.7 | 14.3:1 | 45% (230) |
| 2020-21 | 624 | 37 | 16.9:1 | 41% (253) |
| 2017-18 | 628 | 38.1 | 16.5:1 | 50% (317) |
| 2015-16 | 685 | 39 | 17.6:1 | 48% (329) |
| 2010-11 | 650 | 39 | 16.7:1 | 42% (273) |
| 2000-01 | 714 | 39 | 18.3:1 | 27% (190) |
| 1990-91 | 522 | 27 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bill Reed Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (628 to 530); teachers down 3% (38.1 to 36.8).
About Bill Reed Middle School
Bill Reed Middle School is a public medium-sized middle school in LOVELAND, Colorado. Classes run from 6 through 8, and the school has 530 students.
Thompson School District R-2J counts 32 schools and 14,580 students, including Bill Reed Middle School.
A majority of students at Bill Reed Middle School, 61%, are White. The rest of enrollment is 31% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. Among all residents of Larimer County, the White share is about 82%. The chance that two students picked at random at Bill Reed Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 53%.
The school has about 14.4 students per teacher and 36.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among middle schools in Colorado is 15.9:1, higher than at this school. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 35% average for public schools in Larimer County is 12 points.
Measured against Colorado public middle schools, Bill Reed Middle School receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, Bill Reed Middle School is among the bottom 10% of schools in Colorado. Predicted: 38.2%. Actual: 24.6%.
In Larimer County (population about 367,368), median household income is about $93,765, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 53%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. A total of 94 public schools operate in Larimer County, serving about 47,159 students.
The school nearest to Bill Reed Middle School is Truscott Elementary School, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. Within five miles of Bill Reed Middle School, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Bill Reed Middle School is 6th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
The school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000, according to its NCES locale (City: Small).
The number of students dropped from 624 to 530 over 4 years. By 2024-25, the school had 14.4 students per teacher, compared with 16.9 in 2020-21.
The Bill Reed Middle School community page is open for posts about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Larimer County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
367,368
Census ACS
Median income
$93,765
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
94
47,159 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Thompson School District R-2J
- Loveland High SchoolHigh · 1,354 students
- Mountain View High SchoolHigh · 1,074 students
- Loveland Classical SchoolCombined · 1,032 students
- New Vision Charter SchoolElementary · 1,005 students
- Thompson Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,005 students
- Riverview PK-8Elementary · 757 students
Other schools in LOVELAND
- Loveland High SchoolHigh · 1,354 students
- Mountain View High SchoolHigh · 1,074 students
- Loveland Classical SchoolCombined · 1,032 students
- New Vision Charter SchoolElementary · 1,005 students
- Thompson Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,005 students
- Lucile Erwin Middle SchoolMiddle · 686 students
Nearby schools
- Truscott Elementary School0.2 mi · 194
- Garfield Elementary School0.4 mi · 213
- Thompson Valley High School1.3 mi · 1,005
- Winona Elementary School1.4 mi · 246
- Harold Ferguson High School1.5 mi · 164
- B F Kitchen Elementary School1.5 mi · 159
Frequently asked questions
About Bill Reed Middle SchoolHow many students attend Bill Reed Middle School?
Bill Reed Middle School enrolls approximately 530 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Bill Reed Middle School serve?
Bill Reed Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bill Reed Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bill Reed Middle School is approximately 14.4:1 (37 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Bill Reed Middle School?
Student demographics at Bill Reed Middle School are roughly 61% White, 31% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Bill Reed Middle School in?
Bill Reed Middle School is part of Thompson School District R-2J.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.