Cresthill Middle School

Located at 9195 CRESTHILL LANE, in HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colorado, Cresthill Middle School is a mid-sized middle-grades school that enrolls 558 students (grades 7 through 8), one of the schools within Douglas County School District No. Re 1. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 462 students each, so Cresthill Middle School sits 21% larger than that benchmark.

Douglas County School District No. Re 1 runs 89 schools in total, collectively educating 61,550 students. Cresthill Middle School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Cresthill Middle School lists that 64% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 21% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 6% Asian, 2% Black. By comparison, Douglas County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Cresthill Middle School shows 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Douglas County (around 18%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Cresthill Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 55.2%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Douglas County indicate median household earnings sit near $149,594, 62% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Douglas County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,841 students), Cresthill Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Highlands Ranch High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cresthill Middle School. On composite proficiency, Cresthill Middle School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 58.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cresthill Middle School has decreased 35%, going from 865 students in 2018 to 558 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 72% to 64% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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