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What's something Mountain Ridge Middle School does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
690
Middle
DISTRICT 704 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ACADEMY DISTRICT 20·NCES 080192001593
Mountain Ridge Middle School
9150 LEXINGTON DRIVE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80920 · (719) 234-3200 · El Paso County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL690 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 72% of Colorado public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
15.8:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.8:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
243 students
DISTRICT 24% · 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 | 196 | 28% |
| Grade 7 | 259 | 38% |
| Grade 8 | 235 | 34% |
Student demographics
60%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
54.7%
CO avg 44.9% . -0.8pp since 2023
Math
39.0%
CO avg 36.1% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.7% | 39.0% |
| 2023-24 | 55.5% | 40.0% |
% 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
46.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.4%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 Mountain Ridge Middle School
Mountain Ridge Middle School's state test result (46.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Ridge Middle School this school | 690 | 35.2% | 46.6% |
| Merrill Middle School DENVER | 611 | 39.1% | 59.8% |
| Goddard Middle School LITTLETON | 575 | 35.1% | 49.5% |
| Westlake Middle School BROOMFIELD | 853 | 32.7% | 49.8% |
| Timberview Middle School COLORADO SPRINGS | 837 | 31.8% | 43.8% |
| Manhattan Middle School of the Arts and Academics BOULDER | 482 | 31.1% | 54.5% |
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 Mountain Ridge Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.6% | #63 of 241 | #8 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #72 of 244 ▼ 7 | #11 of 33 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.7% | #69 of 246 ▼ 8 | #12 of 33 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 690 | #59 of 278 | #12 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #107 of 227 | #17 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.6% | #47 of 227 | #18 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.2% | #169 of 246 | #25 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.8% | #31 of 169 | #8 of 27 |
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
690
-164 (-19%) vs 2020
-41% since 2000-01, when it was 1,174
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 17.1:1
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 | 690 | 43.7 | 15.8:1 | 35% (243) |
| 2023-24 | 720 | 45.3 | 15.9:1 | 33% (239) |
| 2022-23 | 705 | 43.1 | 16.4:1 | 23% (160) |
| 2020-21 | 854 | 50 | 17.1:1 | 26% (220) |
| 2017-18 | 1,012 | 62.1 | 16.3:1 | 21% (212) |
| 2015-16 | 1,147 | 63 | 18.2:1 | 22% (257) |
| 2010-11 | 1,069 | 63 | 17.0:1 | 18% (197) |
| 2000-01 | 1,174 | 64 | 18.3:1 | 5% (60) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mountain Ridge Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 32% (1,012 to 690); teachers down 30% (62.1 to 43.7).
About Mountain Ridge Middle School
Mountain Ridge Middle School is a public middle-grades school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado. It teaches 690 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, middle schools in Colorado enroll about 462 students on average.
Academy District 20 operates 39 schools. Combined enrollment is 25,607 students.
Of every 100 students at Mountain Ridge Middle School, about 58 are White. The rest of enrollment is 24% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Black, and 4% Asian. Among all residents of El Paso County, the White share is about 70%. The diversity index for Mountain Ridge Middle School is 60%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at Mountain Ridge Middle School comes to 43.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.8:1. The average for middle schools in Colorado is about 15.9:1. On the income side, 35% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, Mountain Ridge Middle School lands at B+, ahead of 72% of Colorado public middle schools.
Mountain Ridge Middle School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Colorado schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 46.6% and a predicted 45.4%.
El Paso County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $90,363 a year, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. There are 245 public schools in the county, enrolling about 114,356, Mountain Ridge Middle School among them.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Academy International Elementary School, is about 0.6 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Mountain Ridge Middle School is 5th among 6 schools close by.
Federal data place Mountain Ridge Middle School in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 164 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The ratio was 17.1:1 in 2020-21 and 15.8:1 in 2024-25.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at Mountain Ridge Middle School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
El Paso County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
742,999
Census ACS
Median income
$90,363
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
245
114,356 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Academy District 20
- The Classical Academy CharterElementary · 1,909 students
- Pine Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,875 students
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,526 students
- Air Academy High SchoolHigh · 1,380 students
- Rampart High SchoolHigh · 1,305 students
- Chinook Trail Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,075 students
Other schools in COLORADO SPRINGS
- The Classical Academy CharterElementary · 1,909 students
- Pine Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,875 students
- Doherty High SchoolHigh · 1,715 students
- Banning Lewis Ranch AcademyCombined · 1,697 students
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,526 students
- Vista Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,473 students
Other Mountain Ridge Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Mountain Ridge Middle. Mountain Ridge Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Mountain Ridge Middle SchoolHIGHLANDS RANCH, CO · 752 students
- Mountain Ridge Middle SchoolGerrardstown, WV · 619 students
Nearby schools
- Academy International Elementary School0.6 mi · 368
- Mountain View Elementary School0.9 mi · 567
- Ascend College Prep0.9 mi · 109
- Challenger Middle School1.0 mi · 696
- Village High School1.1 mi · 532
- Rampart High School1.1 mi · 1,305
Frequently asked questions
About Mountain Ridge Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Mountain Ridge Middle School?
Mountain Ridge Middle School enrolls approximately 690 students in grades 06-08.
Is Mountain Ridge Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mountain Ridge Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Mountain Ridge Middle School have?
Mountain Ridge Middle School employs 44 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Mountain Ridge Middle School?
Student demographics at Mountain Ridge Middle School are roughly 58% White, 24% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Mountain Ridge Middle School public or private?
Mountain Ridge Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Academy District 20.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.