Enrollment
248
Middle
DISTRICT 196 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WELD COUNTY REORGANIZED SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. RE-1·NCES 080420000577
North Valley Middle School
1175 BIRCH STREET, GILCREST, CO 80623 · (970) 350-4201 · Weld County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL248 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 65% 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.
- 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
13.4:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
166 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 | 93 | 38% |
| Grade 7 | 80 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 75 | 30% |
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
North Valley Middle School→Valley High School
Based on grade levels within Weld County Reorganized School District No. Re-1. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
42.6%
CO avg 44.9% . +4.1pp since 2023
Math
22.0%
CO avg 36.1% . +4.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.6% | 22.0% |
| 2023-24 | 38.5% | 17.9% |
% 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
32.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.1%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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 North Valley Middle School
North Valley Middle School's state test result (32.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Valley Middle School this school | 248 | 66.9% | 32.5% |
| Yuma Middle School YUMA | 223 | 62.8% | 30.5% |
| Trinidad Middle School TRINIDAD | 172 | 72.7% | 26.9% |
| Lochbuie Elementary School LOCHBUIE | 239 | 61.9% | 20.5% |
| Lamar Middle School LAMAR | 275 | 76.4% | 24.8% |
| Centauri Middle School LA JARA | 211 | 64.5% | 38.3% |
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 North Valley Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Weld County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.5% | #121 of 241 | #9 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.0% | #149 of 244 ▲ 11 | #9 of 19 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.6% | #116 of 246 ▲ 20 | #9 of 19 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 248 | #213 of 278 | #16 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #41 of 227 | #3 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.1% | #141 of 227 | #8 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.9% | #65 of 246 | #5 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.4% | #140 of 169 | #10 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
248
+33 (+15%) vs 2020
+53% since 1990-91, when it was 162
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 11.3:1
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 | 248 | 18.5 | 13.4:1 | 67% (166) |
| 2023-24 | 231 | 21 | 11.0:1 | 54% (124) |
| 2022-23 | 212 | 17 | 12.5:1 | 51% (109) |
| 2020-21 | 215 | 19 | 11.3:1 | 61% (132) |
| 2017-18 | 265 | 18 | 14.8:1 | 53% (140) |
| 2015-16 | 238 | 17 | 14.0:1 | 63% (151) |
| 2010-11 | 255 | 14 | 18.2:1 | 61% (155) |
| 2000-01 | 197 | 14 | 14.1:1 | 41% (80) |
| 1990-91 | 162 | 7 | 23.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for North Valley Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (265 to 248); teachers up 3% (18 to 18.5).
About North Valley Middle School
North Valley Middle School is a low-enrollment middle school in GILCREST, Colorado, one of the schools in Weld County Reorganized School District No. Re-1. The school has 248 students in 2024-25 across grades 6 through 8. Middle schools in Colorado average about 462 students, which makes this school 46% below average.
North Valley Middle School is one school in a 6-school district, Weld County Reorganized School District No. Re-1, which enrolls 1,727 students.
More than half of enrollment at North Valley Middle School is Hispanic: 66%. Other groups make up 31% White and 2% multiracial. Weld County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, North Valley Middle School scores 47%.
The school lists 18.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.4:1. Compared with the 15.9:1 average for middle schools in Colorado, this school's ratio is lower. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 67% of the student body. Compared with the 47% average for public schools in Weld County, the school's rate is higher.
North Valley Middle School earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 65% of Colorado public middle schools.
Test results at North Valley Middle School are 6.4 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (32.5% actual, 26.1% predicted).
American Community Survey estimates for Weld County show that the median household earns about $97,097 a year, about 33% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Weld County has 116 public schools with about 61,274 students, including North Valley Middle School.
Of the public schools around it, North Valley Middle School is closest to Pete Mirich Elementary School, less than a tenth of a mile away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. North Valley Middle School is 2nd of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Mid-size. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Federal enrollment counts rose from 215 (2020-21) to 248 (2024-25). Federal data show the ratio rising from 11.3:1 to 13.4:1.
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Weld County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
350,396
Census ACS
Median income
$97,097
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
116
61,274 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Weld County Reorganized School District No. Re-1
- Valley High SchoolHigh · 483 students
- Pete Mirich Elementary SchoolElementary · 358 students
- Platteville Elementary SchoolElementary · 317 students
- Gilcrest Elementary SchoolElementary · 178 students
- South Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 143 students
Other schools in GILCREST
- Valley High SchoolHigh · 483 students
- Gilcrest Elementary SchoolElementary · 178 students
Nearby schools
- Pete Mirich Elementary School0.1 mi · 358
- Centennial Elementary School1.8 mi · 481
- Chappelow K-8 Magnet School2.1 mi · 693
- Dos Rios Elementary School2.1 mi · 499
- Union Colony Elementary School2.6 mi · 342
- Frontier Charter Academy2.8 mi · 1,432
Frequently asked questions
About North Valley Middle SchoolHow many students attend North Valley Middle School?
North Valley Middle School enrolls approximately 248 students in grades 06-08.
Is North Valley Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
North Valley Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at North Valley Middle School?
Approximately 13.4:1 students per teacher at North Valley Middle School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at North Valley Middle School?
At North Valley Middle School, the student body is approximately 31% White, 66% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Two or more.
What district is North Valley Middle School in?
North Valley Middle School is part of Weld County Reorganized School District No. Re-1.
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