Janitell Junior High School

Located at 7635 FOUNTAIN MESA ROAD, in FOUNTAIN, Colorado, Janitell Junior High School is a mid-sized intermediate school that caters to 658 students (grades 6 through 8), part of School District No. 3 in the county of El Paso and State of. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 462 students each, so Janitell Junior High School sits 42% bigger than that benchmark.

School District No. 3 in the county of El Paso and State of runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 9,290 students. Janitell Junior High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Janitell Junior High School records that 40% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 35% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 10% Black, 2% Pacific Islander. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

On the income-and-resources front, Janitell Junior High School logs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. The state averages about 15.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 46% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Janitell Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.8%, the actual is 32.0%, a residual of -6.8 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (El Paso County) records that the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Janitell Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

Mesa Ridge High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Janitell Junior High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Janitell Junior High School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 33.0%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Janitell Junior High School has ticked down 17%, going from 789 students in 2018 to 658 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 46% to 40% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

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