Discovery Canyon Campus Middle School

Discovery Canyon Campus Middle School is a sprawling middle school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, run under Academy School District No. 20 in the county of El Paso an. The school hosts 821 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 78% above the state mean of about 462.

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

In terms of who attends, Discovery Canyon Campus Middle School reports that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 18% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 7% Asian, 3% Black.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 18% of students at Discovery Canyon Campus Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of El Paso County's rate of about 42%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Discovery Canyon Campus Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.4%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for El Paso County put the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, El Paso County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), of which Discovery Canyon Campus Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Discovery Canyon Campus High School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Discovery Canyon Campus Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Discovery Canyon Campus Middle School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 57.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 20%: 1,022 students in 2018 compared to 821 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 73% to 63% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.

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