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Enrollment
798
Middle
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. R-1·NCES 080480000713
Dunstan Middle School
1855 SOUTH WRIGHT STREET, LAKEWOOD, CO 80228 · (303) 982-9270 · Jefferson County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL798 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 55% of Colorado public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public middle schools
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.6:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
225 students
DISTRICT 35% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 261 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 253 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 284 | 36% |
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
49.5%
CO avg 44.9% . -0.2pp since 2023
Math
39.9%
CO avg 36.1% . +3.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.5% | 39.9% |
| 2023-24 | 49.7% | 36.3% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
43.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.6%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Dunstan Middle School
Dunstan Middle School's state test result (43.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunstan Middle School this school | 798 | 28.2% | 43.5% |
| Lesher Middle School FORT COLLINS | 766 | 29.5% | 56.0% |
| Castle Rock Middle School CASTLE ROCK | 660 | 25.9% | 44.4% |
| Bell Middle School GOLDEN | 774 | 26.6% | 50.8% |
| Mesa Middle School CASTLE ROCK | 852 | 25.6% | 41.8% |
| Euclid Middle School LITTLETON | 631 | 31.1% | 50.9% |
Matched among Colorado middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Dunstan Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.5% | #75 of 241 | #11 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.9% | #70 of 244 ▲ 5 | #10 of 19 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.5% | #87 of 246 ▼ 4 | #11 of 19 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 798 | #32 of 278 | #3 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.3:1 | #182 of 227 | #8 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.7% | #136 of 227 | #8 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 28.2% | #197 of 246 | #8 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +25.9% | #9 of 55 | #4 of 13 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
798
-101 (-11%) vs 2020
+14% since 1990-91, when it was 702
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
was 19.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 798 | 43.7 | 18.3:1 | 28% (225) |
| 2023-24 | 790 | 43.3 | 18.3:1 | 30% (238) |
| 2022-23 | 818 | 41 | 20.0:1 | 33% (270) |
| 2020-21 | 899 | 46 | 19.5:1 | 29% (261) |
| 2017-18 | 634 | 34.2 | 18.5:1 | 28% (177) |
| 2015-16 | 626 | 31 | 20.2:1 | 27% (171) |
| 2010-11 | 605 | 31 | 19.5:1 | 25% (154) |
| 2000-01 | 770 | 37 | 20.8:1 | 13% (97) |
| 1990-91 | 702 | 33 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dunstan Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 26% (634 to 798); teachers up 28% (34.2 to 43.7).
About Dunstan Middle School
This page covers Dunstan Middle School, a high-enrollment middle school in LAKEWOOD, Colorado. It offers grades 6 through 8 and has 798 students enrolled. By comparison, middle schools in Colorado enroll about 462 students on average.
Within Jefferson County School District No. R-1, Dunstan Middle School is one of 148 schools. The district enrolls 74,935 students.
White students are 69% of those enrolled at Dunstan Middle School. Other reported shares: 21% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 2% Asian. That compares with about 80% White among all Jefferson County residents. A diversity index of 48% means there is a 48% chance two randomly chosen students at Dunstan Middle School are from different groups.
There are 43.7 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 18.3:1. The average for middle schools in Colorado, 15.9:1, is lower. Of all students at Dunstan Middle School, 28% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, Dunstan Middle School lands at B, ahead of 55% of Colorado public middle schools.
A school with Dunstan Middle School's lunch-eligibility share in Colorado is predicted to score 49.6%. Dunstan Middle School scores 43.5%, 6.2 points below that line.
In the wider Jefferson County area, the median household earns about $110,656 a year, about 52% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Across Jefferson County, 168 public schools serve about 74,739 students.
Devinny Elementary School is about 0.1 miles from Dunstan Middle School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Dunstan Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools. Among 7 nearby schools that report test results, Dunstan Middle School ranks 4th on proficiency.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 798, down from 899 in 2020-21. The school's ratio dropped from 19.5:1 to 18.3:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
The allk12 page for Dunstan Middle School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Jefferson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,377
Census ACS
Median income
$110,656
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
52%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
168
74,739 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jefferson County School District No. R-1
- Arvada West High SchoolHigh · 1,923 students
- Ralston Valley Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,875 students
- Chatfield High SchoolHigh · 1,808 students
- Lakewood High SchoolHigh · 1,735 students
- Columbine High SchoolHigh · 1,710 students
- Golden High SchoolHigh · 1,469 students
Other schools in LAKEWOOD
- Lakewood High SchoolHigh · 1,735 students
- Bear Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,344 students
- Green Mountain High SchoolHigh · 1,071 students
- Alameda International Junior/Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,002 students
- Bear Creek K-8 SchoolElementary · 863 students
- Addenbrooke Classical Grammar SchoolElementary · 774 students
Nearby schools
- Devinny Elementary School0.1 mi · 505
- Hutchinson Elementary School0.4 mi · 328
- Green Mountain High School0.7 mi · 1,071
- Rooney Ranch Elementary School0.8 mi · 492
- JeffCo Remote Learning Program0.8 mi · 399
- Jeffco Virtual Academy0.8 mi · 441
Frequently asked questions
About Dunstan Middle SchoolHow many students attend Dunstan Middle School?
Dunstan Middle School enrolls approximately 798 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Dunstan Middle School serve?
Dunstan Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Dunstan Middle School?
Approximately 18.3:1 students per teacher at Dunstan Middle School.
How diverse is Dunstan Middle School?
Dunstan Middle School reports a student body of 69% White, 21% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Dunstan Middle School?
Dunstan Middle School is overseen by Jefferson County School District No. R-1 in Jefferson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.