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Blevins Middle School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Blevins Middle School
Blevins Middle School is a tight-knit intermediate school in FORT COLLINS, Colorado, overseen by Poudre School District R-1. The school instructs 363 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 21% smaller than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 462 students.
Poudre School District R-1 runs 52 schools in total, collectively educating 29,381 students. Blevins Middle School is one of those campuses.
Demographically, Blevins Middle School shows that White students make up the majority at 66%. Beyond that, the school records 24% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.
On the resource side, On paper, Blevins Middle School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Blevins Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 52% of students at Blevins Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Larimer County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Blevins Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.1%, the actual is 39.7%, a residual of +4.6 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Larimer County indicate the typical household earns roughly $93,765 per year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Blevins Middle School is one of 94 public schools in Larimer County (combined enrollment of about 47,159 students).
Nearest neighbor: Bauder Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Blevins Middle School. On composite proficiency, Blevins Middle School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.3%.
The campus sits in an urban setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Blevins Middle School has declined 44%, going from 652 students in 2018 to 363 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.
On the community side, members of the Blevins Middle School community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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