Otho E Stuart Middle School

Otho E Stuart Middle School operates as a heavily attended 6-8 campus in COMMERCE CITY, Colorado, part of School District 27J. Current enrollment sits at 794 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 72% bigger than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 462 students.

Within School District 27J, which oversees 33 schools and 24,044 students, Otho E Stuart Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Otho E Stuart Middle School records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 57% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 28% White, 6% Black, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 43% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Roughly 53% of students at Otho E Stuart Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Adams County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Otho E Stuart Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 34.8%; actual is 17.4%, a gap of -17.4 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Adams County put the typical household earns roughly $94,571 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Otho E Stuart Middle School is one of 171 public schools in Adams County (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students).

The closest other public school is Second Creek Elementary School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Otho E Stuart Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Otho E Stuart Middle School at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 30.3%.

Otho E Stuart Middle School operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Otho E Stuart Middle School's enrollment has shrank 7% since 2018, when it stood at 855 (now 794). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 45% to 28%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 26.5:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 today.

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