Cheyenne Mountain Junior High School

Set in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Cheyenne Mountain Junior High School is a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school, one of the schools within Cheyenne Mountain School District No. 12 in the county of E. It enrolls 604 students across grades 7 through 8. That puts it 31% bigger than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 462 students.

Cheyenne Mountain Junior High School is one of 9 schools operated by Cheyenne Mountain School District No. 12 in the county of E, a district that educates 3,745 students overall.

Demographically, Cheyenne Mountain Junior High School lists that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 17% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with El Paso County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. The state averages about 15.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below El Paso County's rate of about 42%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cheyenne Mountain Junior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.7%; this one delivers 64.1%.

Across the wider county, census data for El Paso County shows median household income runs about $90,363, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, El Paso County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), of which Cheyenne Mountain Junior High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Canon Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cheyenne Mountain Junior High School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cheyenne Mountain Junior High School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 60.3%.

Cheyenne Mountain Junior High School operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 5%: 633 students in 2018 compared to 604 in 2025.

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