Overland Trail Middle School

Overland Trail Middle School is one of the medium-sized junior highs in BRIGHTON, Colorado, overseen by School District 27J, with 581 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 462 students each, so Overland Trail Middle School sits 26% bigger than that benchmark.

School District 27J comprises 33 schools with combined enrollment of 24,044 students; Overland Trail Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Overland Trail Middle School lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 70%. The remainder breaks down as 24% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 43% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Overland Trail Middle School lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Overland Trail Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Overland Trail Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.0%, the actual is 12.3%, a residual of -11.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Adams County indicate the typical household earns roughly $94,571 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Adams County runs 171 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students), of which Overland Trail Middle School is one.

Northeast Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Overland Trail Middle School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 16.8%.

Overland Trail Middle School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Overland Trail Middle School has decreased 3%, going from 597 students in 2018 to 581 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 58% to 70%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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