Fort Lupton Middle School

Located at 201 SOUTH MCKINLEY, in FORT LUPTON, Colorado, Fort Lupton Middle School is a reasonably sized intermediate school that instructs 438 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Weld re-8 schools.

Weld re-8 schools runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,503 students. Fort Lupton Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Fort Lupton Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%). The remainder is composed of 14% White. The wider county runs roughly 31% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Fort Lupton Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Weld County (around 47%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fort Lupton Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 28.6%; this one comes in at 13.1%, -15.6 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Weld County indicate median household income runs about $97,097, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Fort Lupton Middle School is one of 116 public schools in Weld County (combined enrollment of about 61,274 students).

The closest other public school is Weld Re-8 Online Academy, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Fort Lupton Middle School. On composite proficiency, Fort Lupton Middle School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 16.8%.

Fort Lupton Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Fort Lupton Middle School's enrollment has shrank 12% since 2018, when it stood at 495 (now 438). White enrollment moved from 20% to 14% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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