Jenkins Middle School

Set in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Jenkins Middle School is a sizable middle-grades school, one of the schools within Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E. It educates 791 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 71% 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. Jenkins Middle School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Jenkins Middle School lists that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Roughly 44% of students at Jenkins Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Jenkins Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.3%, the actual is 42.7%, a residual of +2.4 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for El Paso County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Jenkins Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Martinez Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Jenkins Middle School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 43.3%.

Jenkins Middle School operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jenkins Middle School has contracted 20%, going from 987 students in 2018 to 791 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 66% to 56% across the same window.

On allk12, the feed for Jenkins Middle School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.