Manitou Springs Middle School

Set in MANITOU SPRINGS, Colorado, Manitou Springs Middle School is a cozy middle school, overseen by Manitou Springs School District No. 14 in the county of El. It enrolls 275 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 462 students each, so Manitou Springs Middle School sits 40% smaller than that benchmark.

Manitou Springs School District No. 14 in the county of El comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,147 students; Manitou Springs Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Manitou Springs Middle School reports that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Manitou Springs Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.5%, the actual is 43.2%, a residual of -1.2 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (El Paso County) records that the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Manitou Springs Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Manitou Springs High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Manitou Springs Middle School. On composite proficiency, Manitou Springs Middle School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.2%.

Manitou Springs Middle School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 23%: 358 students in 2018 compared to 275 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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