Kiowa Middle School

Located at 525 COMMANCHE ST, in KIOWA, Colorado, Kiowa Middle School is a micro-enrollment middle-grades school that hosts 66 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by School District No. C-2 in the county of Elbert and State of. Compared to the state average of about 462 students per school, that is 86% leaner than typical.

School District No. C-2 in the county of Elbert and State of runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 292 students. Kiowa Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Kiowa Middle School logs that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 12% Hispanic. Compared to Elbert County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Kiowa Middle School has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Elbert County (around 32%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kiowa Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Colorado public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 39.2%; Kiowa Middle School posts 26.4%, -12.8 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Elbert County shows the typical household earns roughly $132,685 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Elbert County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,265 students), of which Kiowa Middle School is one.

Kiowa Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kiowa Middle School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Looking at the recent track record. Kiowa Middle School's enrollment has contracted 10% since 2018, when it stood at 73 (now 66). White enrollment moved from 89% to 83% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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