Fitzsimmons Middle School

Fitzsimmons Middle School is a 6-8 campus of minimally staffed scale in BAILEY, Colorado, operated by Platte Canyon School District No. 1 of the county of Park, serveing 138 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 462 students each, so Fitzsimmons Middle School sits 70% leaner than that benchmark.

Fitzsimmons Middle School is one of 3 schools operated by Platte Canyon School District No. 1 of the county of Park, a district that works with 688 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Fitzsimmons Middle School records that White students make up the majority at 80%; the rest comes out to 14% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 89% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Fitzsimmons Middle School shows 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Roughly 36% of students at Fitzsimmons Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fitzsimmons Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.9%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Park County indicate median household earnings sit near $103,670, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Park County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,264 students), Fitzsimmons Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Platte Canyon High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Fitzsimmons Middle School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.3%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Fitzsimmons Middle School's enrollment has ticked down 37% since 2018, when it stood at 220 (now 138). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 today.

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