Falcon Middle School

Set in PEYTON, Colorado, Falcon Middle School is a roomy 6-8 campus, part of El Paso County Colorado School District 49. It educates 866 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 87% larger than the state mean of about 462.

Within El Paso County Colorado School District 49, which oversees 31 schools and 25,689 students, Falcon Middle School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Falcon Middle School records that White students make up the majority at 62%; the rest comes out to 23% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Falcon Middle School reports 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Falcon Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 32% of students at Falcon Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Falcon Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 47.5%; actual is 34.3%, a gap of -13.2 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Falcon Middle School is one of 245 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students).

Bennett Ranch Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Falcon Middle School. On composite proficiency, Falcon Middle School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.5%.

Falcon Middle School operates from a town-based location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 12%: 983 students in 2018 compared to 866 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 70% to 62%.

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