East Middle School

East Middle School, a middle-of-the-pack junior high in AURORA, Colorado, operated by Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the counties of Adams and A, works with 634 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 37% bigger than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 462 students.

Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the counties of Adams and A comprises 59 schools with combined enrollment of 39,464 students; East Middle School is among them.

On demographics, East Middle School logs that 78% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 9% Black, 5% White, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at school resources, East Middle School reports 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting East Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Arapahoe County's rate of about 50%.

With demographic context factored in, East Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 10.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 9.0%.

Across the wider county, Arapahoe County reports that median household earnings sit near $101,087, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Arapahoe County runs 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students), of which East Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Elkhart Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around East Middle School. On composite proficiency, East Middle School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 11.8%.

East Middle School operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at East Middle School has shrank 35%, going from 972 students in 2018 to 634 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 26.4:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.