Canon City Middle School
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Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsWhat this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Canon City Middle School
Set in CANON CITY, Colorado, Canon City Middle School is a tight-knit middle school, run under Fremont Re-1. It educates 382 students across grades 6 through 8.
Within Fremont Re-1, which oversees 8 schools and 3,191 students, Canon City Middle School is one campus in the system.
On demographics, Canon City Middle School shows that the largest single group is White, at 80% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 15% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Canon City Middle School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
After controlling for student poverty, Canon City Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.5%.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Fremont County) logs that median household earnings sit near $62,664, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Canon City Middle School is one of 13 public schools in Fremont County (combined enrollment of about 4,640 students).
Canon City High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Canon City Middle School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.5%.
The school occupies a town-center site.
Over the past 7-year window. Canon City Middle School's enrollment has ticked down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 402 (now 382).
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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