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What's one thing John Wesley Powell Middle School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
509
Middle
DISTRICT 624 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 080531001351
John Wesley Powell Middle School
8000 SOUTH CORONA WAY, LITTLETON, CO 80122 · (303) 347-7850 · Arapahoe County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL509 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 86% of Colorado public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public middle schools
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.7:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
130 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 153 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 197 | 39% |
| Grade 8 | 159 | 31% |
Student demographics
39%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
65.3%
CO avg 44.9% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
45.9%
CO avg 36.1% . +0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.3% | 45.9% |
| 2023-24 | 63.3% | 45.8% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
57.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.2%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like John Wesley Powell Middle School
John Wesley Powell Middle School's state test result (57.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Wesley Powell Middle School this school | 509 | 25.5% | 57.7% |
| Cheyenne Mountain Junior High School COLORADO SPRINGS | 604 | 21.5% | 64.1% |
| Deer Creek Middle School LITTLETON | 541 | 19.6% | 52.1% |
| Castle Rock Middle School CASTLE ROCK | 660 | 25.9% | 44.4% |
| Mead Middle School MEAD | 571 | 27.0% | 56.8% |
| Preston Middle School FORT COLLINS | 568 | 29.8% | 51.6% |
Matched among Colorado middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where John Wesley Powell Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Arapahoe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.7% | #29 of 241 | #4 of 22 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.9% | #53 of 244 ▼ 7 | #6 of 23 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.3% | #33 of 246 ▲ 3 | #4 of 23 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 509 | #112 of 278 | #19 of 24 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #81 of 227 | #4 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.4% | #182 of 227 | #18 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.5% | #208 of 246 | #18 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -46.5% | #8 of 169 | #1 of 18 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
509
-223 (-30%) vs 2020
-50% since 1990-91, when it was 1,021
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 18.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 509 | 33.9 | 15.0:1 | 26% (130) |
| 2023-24 | 546 | 32.8 | 16.6:1 | 23% (124) |
| 2022-23 | 526 | 35.5 | 14.8:1 | 15% (78) |
| 2020-21 | 732 | 39 | 18.8:1 | 14% (100) |
| 2017-18 | 951 | 47.2 | 20.2:1 | 9% (86) |
| 2015-16 | 964 | 47 | 20.5:1 | 8% (75) |
| 2010-11 | 860 | 43 | 20.0:1 | 11% (92) |
| 2000-01 | 1,012 | 56 | 18.1:1 | 3% (31) |
| 1990-91 | 1,021 | 58 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for John Wesley Powell Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 46% (951 to 509); teachers down 28% (47.2 to 33.9).
About John Wesley Powell Middle School
John Wesley Powell Middle School is a middle school in LITTLETON, Colorado, according to federal school records. Its grade span covers grades 6 through 8, with 509 students on the rolls.
Littleton Public Schools has a total of 20 schools and 13,109 students, John Wesley Powell Middle School among them.
About 76% of the student body at John Wesley Powell Middle School is White. Other groups make up 15% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. County-wide, 59% of Arapahoe County residents are White. A diversity index of 39% means there is a 39% chance two randomly chosen students at John Wesley Powell Middle School are from different groups.
Staffing at John Wesley Powell Middle School comes to 33.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.0:1. The school's 15.0:1 compares with an average of 15.9:1 for middle schools in Colorado. On the income side, 26% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 50% average among public schools in Arapahoe County.
On the allk12 Grade, John Wesley Powell Middle School lands at A, ahead of 86% of Colorado public middle schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, John Wesley Powell Middle School is 6.4 points above its prediction. Actual: 57.7%. Predicted: 51.2%.
The county, Arapahoe County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $101,087 a year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting John Wesley Powell Middle School, Arapahoe County has 176 public schools.
John Wesley Powell Middle School is about 1.0 miles from Arapahoe High School, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, John Wesley Powell Middle School ranks 6th on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, John Wesley Powell Middle School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 30% drop, from 732 to 509. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 18.8:1 in 2020-21 to 15.0:1 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to John Wesley Powell Middle School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Arapahoe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
659,844
Census ACS
Median income
$101,087
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
47%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
176
115,502 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Littleton Public Schools
- Arapahoe High SchoolHigh · 1,748 students
- Heritage High SchoolHigh · 1,748 students
- Littleton High SchoolHigh · 1,187 students
- Newton Middle SchoolMiddle · 781 students
- Ford ElementaryElementary · 653 students
- Euclid Middle SchoolMiddle · 631 students
Other schools in LITTLETON
- Chatfield High SchoolHigh · 1,808 students
- Heritage High SchoolHigh · 1,748 students
- Columbine High SchoolHigh · 1,710 students
- Dakota Ridge Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,277 students
- Littleton High SchoolHigh · 1,187 students
- Rocky Heights Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,129 students
Nearby schools
- Arapahoe High School1.0 mi · 1,748
- Hopkins Elementary School1.0 mi · 372
- Sand Creek Elementary School1.1 mi · 322
- Little Raven Elementary School1.2 mi · 475
- Littleton Academy1.3 mi · 455
- Runyon Elementary School1.4 mi · 423
Frequently asked questions
About John Wesley Powell Middle SchoolHow large is John Wesley Powell Middle School?
John Wesley Powell Middle School enrolls approximately 509 students in grades 06-08.
Is John Wesley Powell Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
John Wesley Powell Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does John Wesley Powell Middle School have?
John Wesley Powell Middle School employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.0:1.
How diverse is John Wesley Powell Middle School?
John Wesley Powell Middle School reports a student body of 76% White, 15% Hispanic, 2% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is John Wesley Powell Middle School in?
John Wesley Powell Middle School is part of Littleton Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.