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Fox Meadow Middle School
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsWhat this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 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.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Fox Meadow Middle School
Fox Meadow Middle School is one of the low-enrollment middle schools in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, part of Harrison School District No. 2 in the county of El Paso an, with 369 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 462 students each, so Fox Meadow Middle School sits 20% leaner than that benchmark.
Harrison School District No. 2 in the county of El Paso an comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 11,938 students; Fox Meadow Middle School is among them.
Demographically, Fox Meadow Middle School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 24% White, 12% Black, 10% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Fox Meadow Middle School has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Roughly 82% of students at Fox Meadow Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above El Paso County's rate of about 42%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fox Meadow Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.3%, the actual is 21.0%, a residual of +3.7 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,363, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, El Paso County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), of which Fox Meadow Middle School is one.
Harrison High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fox Meadow Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 36.2%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area.
Over the past 7-year window. Fox Meadow Middle School's enrollment has ticked down 42% since 2018, when it stood at 640 (now 369). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 46% to 51%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.
On the community side, the feed for Fox Meadow Middle School typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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