Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Manhattan Middle School of the Arts and Academics is a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school in BOULDER, Colorado, overseen by Boulder Valley School District No. Re2. The school educates 482 students in grades 6 through 8.
Boulder Valley School District No. Re2 runs 56 schools in total, collectively educating 27,988 students. Manhattan Middle School of the Arts and Academics is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Manhattan Middle School of the Arts and Academics shows that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Boulder County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Manhattan Middle School of the Arts and Academics higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 31% of students at Manhattan Middle School of the Arts and Academics qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
After controlling for student poverty, Manhattan Middle School of the Arts and Academics performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.9%, the actual is 54.5%, a residual of +6.6 points.
Across the wider county, Boulder County reports that median household income runs about $103,994, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Manhattan Middle School of the Arts and Academics is one of 86 public schools in Boulder County (combined enrollment of about 42,200 students).
Nearest neighbor: Horizons K-8 School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Manhattan Middle School of the Arts and Academics comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 72.7%.
The campus sits in an inner-city setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 489 students in 2018 compared to 482 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 65% to 60% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.
Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Manhattan Middle School of the Arts and Academics community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
