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If you could change one rule at Falcon Bluffs Middle School, what would it be?
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Enrollment
567
Middle
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. R-1·NCES 080480001970
Falcon Bluffs Middle School
8449 SOUTH GARRISON STREET, LITTLETON, CO 80128 · (303) 982-9900 · Jefferson County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL567 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 64% of Colorado public middle schools
- A-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
19.9:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.6:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
107 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 | 187 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 204 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 176 | 31% |
Student demographics
39%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
58.8%
CO avg 44.9% . +0.3pp since 2023
Math
41.2%
CO avg 36.1% . -2.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 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 down about 2 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.8% | 41.2% |
| 2023-24 | 58.5% | 43.3% |
% 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
50.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.3%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 Falcon Bluffs Middle School
Falcon Bluffs Middle School's state test result (50.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Falcon Bluffs Middle School this school | 567 | 18.9% | 50.7% |
| Louisville Middle School LOUISVILLE | 626 | 18.5% | 62.9% |
| Cheyenne Mountain Junior High School COLORADO SPRINGS | 604 | 21.5% | 64.1% |
| Turner Middle School BERTHOUD | 448 | 17.4% | 46.8% |
| Deer Creek Middle School LITTLETON | 541 | 19.6% | 52.1% |
| Steamboat Springs Middle School STEAMBOAT SPRINGS | 440 | 18.4% | 65.6% |
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 Falcon Bluffs Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.7% | #53 of 241 | #8 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.2% | #66 of 244 ▼ 10 | #9 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.8% | #57 of 246 ▼ 11 | #7 of 19 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 567 | #91 of 278 | #9 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.9:1 | #221 of 227 | #18 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.4% | #183 of 227 | #12 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.9% | #221 of 246 | #15 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.1% | #87 of 169 | N/A |
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
567
-90 (-14%) vs 2020
-19% since 2010-11, when it was 697
Student : Teacher
19.9:1
was 18.8:1
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 | 567 | 28.5 | 19.9:1 | 19% (107) |
| 2023-24 | 572 | 30.9 | 18.5:1 | 20% (117) |
| 2022-23 | 604 | 34.9 | 17.3:1 | 23% (140) |
| 2020-21 | 657 | 35 | 18.8:1 | 21% (138) |
| 2017-18 | 676 | 35.5 | 19.0:1 | 19% (126) |
| 2015-16 | 635 | 34 | 18.7:1 | 15% (93) |
| 2010-11 | 697 | 36 | 19.4:1 | 14% (99) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Falcon Bluffs Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (676 to 567); teachers down 20% (35.5 to 28.5).
About Falcon Bluffs Middle School
Falcon Bluffs Middle School is a mid-sized middle school in LITTLETON, Colorado, one of the schools in Jefferson County School District No. R-1. It reported 567 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. Middle schools in Colorado average about 462 students, which makes this school 23% above average.
Jefferson County School District No. R-1 enrolls 74,935 students, and its 148 schools include Falcon Bluffs Middle School.
The largest group at Falcon Bluffs Middle School is White students, at 76%. Smaller groups are 16% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. Jefferson County residents are about 80% White, a similar share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 39%.
Falcon Bluffs Middle School has 28.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 19.9:1. The school's 19.9:1 compares with an average of 15.9:1 for middle schools in Colorado. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 19%. That is 13 points below the 32% average for public schools in Jefferson County.
Falcon Bluffs Middle School earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 64% of Colorado public middle schools.
A school with Falcon Bluffs Middle School's lunch-eligibility share in Colorado is predicted to score 55.3%. Falcon Bluffs Middle School scores 50.7%, 4.6 points below that line.
Jefferson County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $110,656 a year, roughly 52% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Falcon Bluffs Middle School shares Jefferson County with 167 other public schools.
About 0.6 miles separate Falcon Bluffs Middle School from the closest public school, Collegiate Academy of Colorado. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 51.2%; Falcon Bluffs Middle School's is 50.7%, ranking 6th of 9.
Under the NCES locale system, Falcon Bluffs Middle School is Suburb: Large.
A 14% decline took enrollment from 657 in 2020-21 to 567 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 18.8:1 in 2020-21 to 19.9:1 in 2024-25.
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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 LITTLETON
- Chatfield High SchoolHigh · 1,808 students
- Heritage High SchoolHigh · 1,748 students
- Columbine High SchoolHigh · 1,710 students
- Dakota Ridge Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,277 students
- Littleton High SchoolHigh · 1,187 students
- Rocky Heights Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,129 students
Nearby schools
- Collegiate Academy of Colorado0.6 mi · 245
- Mortensen Elementary School0.6 mi · 260
- Shaffer Elementary School0.8 mi · 497
- Coronado Elementary School0.9 mi · 384
- Stony Creek Elementary School1.6 mi · 349
- Deer Creek Middle School1.6 mi · 541
Frequently asked questions
About Falcon Bluffs Middle SchoolHow large is Falcon Bluffs Middle School?
Falcon Bluffs Middle School enrolls approximately 567 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Falcon Bluffs Middle School serve?
Falcon Bluffs Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Falcon Bluffs Middle School?
Approximately 19.9:1 students per teacher at Falcon Bluffs Middle School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Falcon Bluffs Middle School?
At Falcon Bluffs Middle School, the student body is approximately 76% White, 16% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Falcon Bluffs Middle School public or private?
Falcon Bluffs Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Jefferson County School District No. R-1.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.