Mead Middle School

Mead Middle School is one of the moderately sized middle-grades schools in MEAD, Colorado, one of the schools within St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J, with 571 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 462 students each, so Mead Middle School sits 24% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 54 schools in St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J (31,607 students total), Mead Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Mead Middle School records that White students make up the majority at 71%. Beyond that, the school shows 23% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Mead Middle School has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. An estimated 27% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Weld County's rate of about 47%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mead Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.4%, the actual is 56.8%, a residual of +6.4 points.

Around the school, Weld County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,097, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Weld County runs 116 public schools (combined enrollment of about 61,274 students), of which Mead Middle School is one.

Mead Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mead Middle School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Mead Middle School's enrollment has rose 19% since 2018, when it stood at 480 (now 571). Over the same period, the White share fell from 79% to 71%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Mead Middle School community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.