Prairie Middle School

Set in AURORA, Colorado, Prairie Middle School is a well-populated intermediate school, overseen by Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah. It hosts 1,491 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 223% bigger than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 462 students.

Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah runs 70 schools in total, collectively educating 52,099 students. Prairie Middle School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Prairie Middle School lists that 47% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 20% Black, 17% White, 9% multiracial, 6% Asian. By comparison, Arapahoe County as a whole is about 22% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 98 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 68% of students at Prairie Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Arapahoe County's rate of about 50%.

With demographic context factored in, Prairie Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.3%, the actual is 14.3%, a residual of -11.0 points.

In the area at large, census data for Arapahoe County shows the typical household earns roughly $101,087 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Arapahoe County runs 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students), of which Prairie Middle School is one.

Overland High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Prairie Middle School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 14.5%.

Prairie Middle School operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Prairie Middle School has fell 15%, going from 1,747 students in 2018 to 1,491 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 38% to 47% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.