Holmes Middle School

Holmes Middle School is an intermediate school of middle-of-the-pack scale in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, one of the schools within Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E, enrolling 600 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 30% larger than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 462 students.

Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E runs 60 schools in total, collectively educating 22,293 students. Holmes Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Holmes Middle School lists that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 25% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Holmes Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 46% of students at Holmes Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Holmes Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.1%; this one delivers 45.6%.

In the area at large, El Paso County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Holmes Middle School is one of 245 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students).

Coronado High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Holmes Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 34.9%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 9%: 660 students in 2018 compared to 600 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 72% to 62% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 today.

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