Kepner Beacon Middle School

Kepner Beacon Middle School is a junior high of average-sized scale in DENVER, Colorado, overseen by School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C, enrolling 467 students in grades 6 through 8.

Across the 198 schools in School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C (90,471 students total), Kepner Beacon Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Kepner Beacon Middle School reports that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 6% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Kepner Beacon Middle School records 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Denver County (around 63%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kepner Beacon Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 12.2%, the actual is 14.9%, a residual of +2.7 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Denver County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $94,718 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Kepner Beacon Middle School is one of 206 public schools in Denver County (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students).

The closest other public school is Rocky Mountain Prep Southwest, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kepner Beacon Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kepner Beacon Middle School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 15.8%.

Kepner Beacon Middle School operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Kepner Beacon Middle School's enrollment has rose 71% since 2018, when it stood at 273 (now 467).

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