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Enrollment
866
Middle
DISTRICT 834 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EL PASO COUNTY COLORADO SCHOOL DISTRICT 49·NCES 080387000506
Falcon Middle School
9755 TOWNER AVENUE, PEYTON, CO 80831 · (719) 495-5232 · El Paso County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE31-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL866 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 30% 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.
- DBeats 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
16.9:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
275 students
DISTRICT 37% · 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 | 319 | 37% |
| Grade 7 | 265 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 282 | 33% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
46.4%
CO avg 44.9% . +2.4pp since 2023
Math
25.3%
CO avg 36.1% . +3.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.4% | 25.3% |
| 2023-24 | 44.0% | 21.9% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
34.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.5%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 47% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Middle School
Falcon Middle School's state test result (34.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Falcon Middle School this school | 866 | 31.8% | 34.3% |
| Timberview Middle School COLORADO SPRINGS | 837 | 31.8% | 43.8% |
| Severance Middle School WINDSOR | 670 | 33.6% | 38.9% |
| Webber Middle School FORT COLLINS | 728 | 34.9% | 53.3% |
| Dunstan Middle School LAKEWOOD | 798 | 28.2% | 43.5% |
| Mesa Middle School CASTLE ROCK | 852 | 25.6% | 41.8% |
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 Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.3% | #111 of 241 | #17 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.3% | #126 of 244 ▲ 8 | #20 of 33 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.4% | #101 of 246 ▲ 5 | #18 of 33 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 866 | #18 of 278 | #4 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #152 of 227 | #25 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.0% | #76 of 227 | #23 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.8% | #183 of 246 | #27 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.9% | #107 of 169 | #19 of 27 |
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
866
-57 (-6%) vs 2020
+163% since 1990-91, when it was 329
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 17.1:1
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 | 866 | 51.3 | 16.9:1 | 32% (275) |
| 2023-24 | 878 | 51 | 17.2:1 | 30% (266) |
| 2022-23 | 937 | 49.6 | 18.9:1 | 27% (252) |
| 2020-21 | 923 | 54 | 17.1:1 | 21% (191) |
| 2017-18 | 983 | 55.4 | 17.7:1 | 25% (246) |
| 2015-16 | 907 | 52 | 17.4:1 | 22% (202) |
| 2010-11 | 908 | 47 | 19.3:1 | 18% (167) |
| 2000-01 | 436 | 25 | 17.4:1 | 15% (64) |
| 1990-91 | 329 | 19 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Falcon Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (983 to 866); teachers down 8% (55.4 to 51.3).
About Falcon Middle School
Falcon Middle School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a middle-grades school in PEYTON, Colorado. In all, 866 students attend the school in grades 6 through 8. That is 87% bigger than the average of about 462 students for middle schools in Colorado.
Falcon Middle School is run by El Paso County Colorado School District 49, whose 31 schools enroll 25,689 students.
The student body at Falcon Middle School is 62% White. The rest of enrollment is 23% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 4% Black. Among all residents of El Paso County, the White share is about 70%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 55%.
The school has 51.3 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 16.9 students per teacher. The average for middle schools in Colorado is 15.9:1, so this school has more students per teacher. The school reported 32% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Public schools in El Paso County average 42%.
Falcon Middle School holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 30% of Colorado public middle schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Falcon Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Colorado schools: 34.3% actual against 47.5% predicted.
The county, El Paso County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $90,363 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. El Paso County has 245 public schools with about 114,356 students, including Falcon Middle School.
About 0.2 miles separate Falcon Middle School from the closest public school, Bennett Ranch Elementary School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 40.5%; Falcon Middle School's is 34.3%, ranking 6th of 8.
Falcon Middle School falls in the Town: Fringe locale category, used for schools in a town close to an urbanized area.
Federal enrollment counts decreased from 923 (2020-21) to 866 (2024-25).
The allk12 page for Falcon Middle School lets the school community talk about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. You can also rate the school on this page.
El Paso County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
742,999
Census ACS
Median income
$90,363
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
245
114,356 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in El Paso County Colorado School District 49
- GOAL AcademyHigh · 6,693 students
- Banning Lewis Ranch AcademyCombined · 1,697 students
- Vista Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,473 students
- Sand Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,426 students
- Falcon High SchoolHigh · 1,172 students
- Rocky Mountain Classical AcademyElementary · 1,162 students
Other schools in PEYTON
- Falcon High SchoolHigh · 1,172 students
- Bennett Ranch Elementary SchoolElementary · 376 students
- Peyton Elementary SchoolElementary · 293 students
- Peyton Senior High SchoolHigh · 197 students
- Peyton Junior High SchoolMiddle · 78 students
- Peyton Online AcademyCombined · 28 students
Nearby schools
- Bennett Ranch Elementary School0.2 mi · 376
- Meridian Ranch Elementary School1.8 mi · 670
- Woodmen Hills Elementary School1.9 mi · 613
- Pikes Peak School Expeditionary Learning2.0 mi · 400
- Liberty Tree Academy2.1 mi · 602
- Falcon High School2.5 mi · 1,172
Frequently asked questions
About Falcon Middle SchoolHow large is Falcon Middle School?
Falcon Middle School enrolls approximately 866 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Falcon Middle School serve?
Falcon Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Falcon Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Falcon Middle School is approximately 16.9:1 (51 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Falcon Middle School?
Falcon Middle School reports a student body of 62% White, 23% Hispanic, 4% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Falcon Middle School in?
Falcon Middle School is part of El Paso County Colorado School District 49.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.