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Enrollment
626
Middle
DISTRICT 503 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BOULDER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. RE2·NCES 080249000125
Louisville Middle School
1341 MAIN STREET, LOUISVILLE, CO 80027 · (720) 561-7400 · Boulder County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE23-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL626 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 89% 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
18.6:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.9:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
116 students
DISTRICT 30% · 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 | 207 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 212 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 207 | 33% |
Student demographics
35%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
68.8%
CO avg 44.9% . -2.7pp since 2023
Math
55.8%
CO avg 36.1% . -3.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.8% | 55.8% |
| 2023-24 | 71.5% | 59.5% |
% 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
62.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.5%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 Louisville Middle School
Louisville Middle School's state test result (62.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville Middle School this school | 626 | 18.5% | 62.9% |
| Falcon Bluffs Middle School LITTLETON | 567 | 18.9% | 50.7% |
| Deer Creek Middle School LITTLETON | 541 | 19.6% | 52.1% |
| Ranch View Middle School HIGHLANDS RANCH | 829 | 15.8% | 58.7% |
| Cheyenne Mountain Junior High School COLORADO SPRINGS | 604 | 21.5% | 64.1% |
| Sagewood Middle School PARKER | 816 | 17.0% | 44.4% |
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 Louisville Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Boulder County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.9% | #19 of 241 | #4 of 13 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.8% | #24 of 244 ▼ 9 | #4 of 13 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.8% | #24 of 246 ▼ 8 | #5 of 13 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 626 | #77 of 278 | #2 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.6:1 | #192 of 227 | #11 of 13 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.9% | #200 of 227 | #12 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.5% | #223 of 246 | #10 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.0% | #148 of 169 | #11 of 12 |
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
626
+23 (+4%) vs 2020
+17% since 1990-91, when it was 533
Student : Teacher
18.6:1
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 | 626 | 33.7 | 18.6:1 | 19% (116) |
| 2023-24 | 610 | 32.1 | 19.0:1 | 17% (103) |
| 2022-23 | 595 | 32.7 | 18.2:1 | 22% (133) |
| 2020-21 | 603 | 32 | 18.8:1 | 12% (71) |
| 2017-18 | 659 | 33.8 | 19.5:1 | 11% (75) |
| 2015-16 | 621 | 32 | 19.4:1 | 15% (92) |
| 2010-11 | 603 | 30 | 20.1:1 | 12% (71) |
| 2000-01 | 656 | 36 | 18.2:1 | 4% (24) |
| 1990-91 | 533 | 32 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Louisville Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (659 to 626); teachers down 1% (33.8 to 33.7).
About Louisville Middle School
Louisville Middle School is a medium-sized middle-grades school based in LOUISVILLE, Colorado. The grade span is 6 through 8, and enrollment is 626 students. An average school in this group (middle schools in Colorado) has about 462 students.
Louisville Middle School sits within Boulder Valley School District No. Re2, which has 56 schools and 27,988 students.
At Louisville Middle School, White students make up 79% of the student body. It is also 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 2% Asian. For comparison, Boulder County is about 78% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 35% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 18.6:1, with 33.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is higher than the 15.9:1 average for middle schools in Colorado. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Louisville Middle School is 19%. Public schools in Boulder County average 33%.
Louisville Middle School is graded A by allk12, scoring above 89% of Colorado public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Louisville Middle School is 7.4 points above its prediction. Actual: 62.9%. Predicted: 55.5%.
Boulder County has about 328,961 residents, and the median household income is $103,994, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 64% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. In all, Boulder County has 86 public schools and roughly 42,200 students.
The nearest other public school, Louisville Elementary School, is about 0.7 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Louisville Middle School ranks 3rd of 9 on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Small. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Louisville Middle School's enrollment climbed from 603 in 2020-21 to 626 in 2024-25.
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Boulder County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
328,961
Census ACS
Median income
$103,994
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
64%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
86
42,200 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Boulder Valley School District No. Re2
- Boulder High SchoolHigh · 1,939 students
- Fairview High SchoolHigh · 1,863 students
- Broomfield High SchoolHigh · 1,693 students
- Centaurus High SchoolHigh · 1,557 students
- Peak to Peak Charter SchoolCombined · 1,447 students
- Monarch High SchoolHigh · 1,431 students
Other schools in LOUISVILLE
- Monarch High SchoolHigh · 1,431 students
- Monarch K-8 SchoolElementary · 698 students
- Louisville Elementary SchoolElementary · 449 students
- Fireside Elementary SchoolElementary · 431 students
- Coal Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 313 students
Other Louisville Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Louisville Middle. Louisville Middle School is the largest of the 3.
- Louisville Middle SchoolLouisville, OH · 625 students
- LOUISVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOLLOUISVILLE, NE · 107 students
Nearby schools
- Louisville Elementary School0.7 mi · 449
- Centaurus High School1.1 mi · 1,557
- Ryan Elementary School1.2 mi · 436
- Coal Creek Elementary School1.3 mi · 313
- Angevine Middle School1.6 mi · 619
- Fireside Elementary School1.7 mi · 431
Frequently asked questions
About Louisville Middle SchoolHow large is Louisville Middle School?
Louisville Middle School enrolls approximately 626 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Louisville Middle School serve?
Louisville Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Louisville Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Louisville Middle School is approximately 18.6:1 (34 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Louisville Middle School?
At Louisville Middle School, the student body is approximately 79% White, 11% Hispanic, 0% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Louisville Middle School public or private?
Louisville Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Boulder Valley School District No. Re2.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.