Ken Caryl Middle School

Set in LITTLETON, Colorado, Ken Caryl Middle School is a large intermediate school, part of Jefferson County School District No. R-1. It hosts 725 students across grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 462 students per school, that is 57% above typical.

Ken Caryl Middle School is one of 148 schools operated by Jefferson County School District No. R-1, a district that enrolls 74,935 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Ken Caryl Middle School logs that 70% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 20% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the resource side, On paper, Ken Caryl Middle School has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Roughly 27% of students at Ken Caryl Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ken Caryl Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.3%; this one delivers 42.6%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) logs that median household income runs about $110,656, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Jefferson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students), of which Ken Caryl Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Columbine Hills Elementary School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ken Caryl Middle School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ken Caryl Middle School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 47.8%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Ken Caryl Middle School's enrollment has expanded 3% since 2018, when it stood at 707 (now 725). White enrollment moved from 76% to 70% across the same window.

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