Cimarron Middle

Located at 12130 CANTERBERRY PKWY, in PARKER, Colorado, Cimarron Middle is an expansive middle-grades school that works with 1,052 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Douglas County School District No. Re 1. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 462 students each, so Cimarron Middle sits 128% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 89 schools in Douglas County School District No. Re 1 (61,550 students total), Cimarron Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Cimarron Middle reports that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian, 2% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the income-and-resources front, Cimarron Middle shows 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Cimarron Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.8%, the actual is 47.9%, a residual of -9.9 points.

In the area at large, census data for Douglas County shows the typical household earns roughly $149,594 per year, roughly 62% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Douglas County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,841 students), Cimarron Middle is one campus in the mix.

Legend High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Cimarron Middle comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.5%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 25%: 1,401 students in 2018 compared to 1,052 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 79% to 72% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 in 2025.

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