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Enrollment
467
Middle
DISTRICT 447 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 080336006686
Kepner Beacon Middle School
911 SOUTH HAZEL COURT, DENVER, CO 80219 · (720) 424-0027 · Denver County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL467 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 29% of Colorado public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
14.2:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
420 students
DISTRICT 68% · 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 | 144 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 160 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 163 | 35% |
Student demographics
23%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
18.3%
CO avg 44.9% . -7.1pp since 2023
Math
10.4%
CO avg 36.1% . +2.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.3% | 10.4% |
| 2023-24 | 25.4% | 7.9% |
% 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
14.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
12.2%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 12% 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 Kepner Beacon Middle School
Kepner Beacon Middle School's state test result (14.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kepner Beacon Middle School this school | 467 | 89.9% | 14.9% |
| Rocky Mountain Prep Federal DENVER | 376 | 88.0% | 18.3% |
| Atlas Preparatory Middle School COLORADO SPRINGS | 473 | 85.8% | 24.1% |
| DSST: College View Middle School DENVER | 446 | 86.3% | 20.9% |
| Aurora Science & Tech Middle School AURORA | 448 | 85.7% | 17.3% |
| Rocky Mountain Prep Westwood DENVER | 411 | 91.7% | 18.7% |
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 Kepner Beacon Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Denver County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.9% | #217 of 241 | #26 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.4% | #214 of 244 ▲ 5 | #24 of 30 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.3% | #224 of 246 ▼ 27 | #26 of 30 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 467 | #136 of 278 | #12 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #57 of 227 | #10 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.8% | #218 of 227 | #24 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.9% | #12 of 246 | #6 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +71.1% | #3 of 55 | #3 of 14 |
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
467
+36 (+8%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 467 | 33 | 14.2:1 | 90% (420) |
| 2023-24 | 462 | 30 | 15.4:1 | 88% (406) |
| 2022-23 | 431 | 28.3 | 15.2:1 | 88% (381) |
| 2020-21 | 431 | 27 | 16.0:1 | 93% (402) |
| 2017-18 | 273 | 20.3 | 13.4:1 | 97% (264) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kepner Beacon Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 71% (273 to 467); teachers up 62% (20.3 to 33).
About Kepner Beacon Middle School
Students in DENVER, Colorado, attend Kepner Beacon Middle School, a medium-sized middle school. The school's enrollment of 467 students covers grades 6 through 8.
Denver Public Schools enrolls 90,471 students, and its 198 schools include Kepner Beacon Middle School.
About 88% of the student body at Kepner Beacon Middle School is Hispanic. Other students are 6% Black and 3% White. By comparison, Denver County residents are about 28% Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 23%, meaning two students picked at random have a 23% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The ratio of students to teachers is 14.2:1, with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 15.9:1 average for middle schools in Colorado. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Kepner Beacon Middle School is 90%. Compared with the 63% average for public schools in Denver County, the school's rate is higher.
Kepner Beacon Middle School is graded C by allk12, scoring above 29% of Colorado public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Kepner Beacon Middle School's average proficiency rate on state tests of 14.9% is 2.7 points above the 12.2% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Kepner Beacon Middle School is located in Denver County, where the median household income is $94,718, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. Besides Kepner Beacon Middle School, Denver County has 205 other public schools.
The shortest distance from Kepner Beacon Middle School to another public school is less than a tenth of a mile, to Rocky Mountain Prep Southwest. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Kepner Beacon Middle School ranks 5th in a group of 8 nearby schools.
Kepner Beacon Middle School is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
Enrollment has grown by 36 students since 2020-21, to 467. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 14.2:1, from 16.0:1.
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Denver County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
718,877
Census ACS
Median income
$94,718
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
206
91,233 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Denver Public Schools
- East High SchoolHigh · 2,476 students
- Northfield High SchoolHigh · 2,137 students
- South High SchoolHigh · 1,950 students
- North High SchoolHigh · 1,653 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,390 students
- McAuliffe International SchoolMiddle · 1,329 students
Other schools in DENVER
- East High SchoolHigh · 2,476 students
- Northfield High SchoolHigh · 2,137 students
- South High SchoolHigh · 1,950 students
- North High SchoolHigh · 1,653 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,390 students
- McAuliffe International SchoolMiddle · 1,329 students
Nearby schools
- Rocky Mountain Prep Southwest0.0 mi · 453
- Pascual Ledoux Academy0.2 mi · 236
- Rocky Mountain Prep SMART0.3 mi · 604
- Rocky Mountain Prep Westwood0.3 mi · 411
- Castro Elementary School0.4 mi · 241
- Munroe Elementary School0.5 mi · 332
Frequently asked questions
About Kepner Beacon Middle SchoolHow large is Kepner Beacon Middle School?
Kepner Beacon Middle School enrolls approximately 467 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Kepner Beacon Middle School serve?
Kepner Beacon Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Kepner Beacon Middle School have?
Kepner Beacon Middle School employs 33 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Kepner Beacon Middle School?
Student demographics at Kepner Beacon Middle School are roughly 3% White, 88% Hispanic, 6% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Kepner Beacon Middle School?
Kepner Beacon Middle School is overseen by Denver Public Schools in Denver County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.