Century Middle School

As a large middle school in THORNTON, Colorado, Century Middle School hosts 717 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Adams 12 Five Star Schools. That puts it 55% above the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 462 students.

Within Adams 12 Five Star Schools, which oversees 54 schools and 34,466 students, Century Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Century Middle School lists that the largest single group is White at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 43% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Adams County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Century Middle School reports 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.6:1. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Adams County's rate of about 62%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Century Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.7%, the actual is 30.4%, a residual of -6.3 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Adams County put median household earnings sit near $94,571, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Adams County's 171 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students), Century Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Hunters Glen Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Century Middle School. On composite proficiency, Century Middle School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 40.1%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Century Middle School's enrollment has shrank 25% since 2018, when it stood at 956 (now 717). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 61% to 43%.

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