Chinook Trail Middle School

Chinook Trail Middle School, a heavily attended 6-8 campus in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, run under Academy School District No. 20 in the county of El Paso an, instructs 1,075 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 462 students each, so Chinook Trail Middle School sits 133% larger than that benchmark.

Within Academy School District No. 20 in the county of El Paso an, which oversees 39 schools and 25,607 students, Chinook Trail Middle School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Chinook Trail Middle School records that White students make up the majority at 61%; the rest consists of 17% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 6% Asian, 4% Black. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Chinook Trail Middle School shows 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.5:1. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Chinook Trail Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.5%; this one delivers 53.5%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for El Paso County shows median household income runs about $90,363, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Chinook Trail Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Chinook Trail Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chinook Trail Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Chinook Trail Middle School at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 50.4%.

Chinook Trail Middle School operates from an urban location.

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