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Enrollment
679
Middle
DISTRICT 687 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SCHOOL DISTRICT 27J·NCES 080258006362
Prairie View Middle School
12915 EAST 120TH AVENUE, HENDERSON, CO 80640 · (720) 685-5400 · Adams County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL679 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 13% of Colorado public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
18.8:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
400 students
DISTRICT 51% · 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 | 236 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 209 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 234 | 34% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
28.0%
CO avg 44.9% . +0.6pp since 2023
Math
16.8%
CO avg 36.1% . -1.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 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 | 28.0% | 16.8% |
| 2023-24 | 27.4% | 18.2% |
% 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
22.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.0%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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 Prairie View Middle School
Prairie View Middle School's state test result (22.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie View Middle School this school | 679 | 58.9% | 22.5% |
| Shadow Ridge Middle School THORNTON | 632 | 57.4% | 16.4% |
| Otho E Stuart Middle School COMMERCE CITY | 794 | 52.6% | 17.4% |
| Century Middle School THORNTON | 717 | 49.5% | 30.4% |
| Silver Hills Middle School NORTHGLENN | 965 | 68.8% | 21.2% |
| North Arvada Middle School ARVADA | 464 | 66.8% | 23.7% |
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 Prairie View Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Adams County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.5% | #173 of 241 | #6 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.8% | #173 of 244 ▼ 16 | #6 of 20 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #188 of 246 ▼ 4 | #7 of 20 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 679 | #63 of 278 | #7 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.8:1 | #194 of 227 | #16 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.4% | #63 of 227 | #5 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.9% | #91 of 246 | #13 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.0% | #70 of 169 | #10 of 15 |
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
679
+34 (+5%) vs 2020
-12% since 2010-11, when it was 771
Student : Teacher
18.8:1
was 22.2:1
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 | 679 | 36.2 | 18.8:1 | 59% (400) |
| 2023-24 | 682 | 36.2 | 18.8:1 | 58% (394) |
| 2022-23 | 658 | 33.2 | 19.8:1 | 45% (299) |
| 2020-21 | 645 | 29 | 22.2:1 | 32% (208) |
| 2017-18 | 871 | 39.7 | 21.9:1 | 38% (332) |
| 2015-16 | 807 | 39 | 20.7:1 | 36% (288) |
| 2010-11 | 771 | 35 | 22.0:1 | 37% (289) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Prairie View Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (871 to 679); teachers down 9% (39.7 to 36.2).
About Prairie View Middle School
As a mid-sized middle school, Prairie View Middle School serves students in HENDERSON, Colorado. It is open to students in grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 679 students. By comparison, middle schools in Colorado enroll about 462 students on average.
School District 27J operates 33 schools. Combined enrollment is 24,044 students.
More than half of the students at Prairie View Middle School are Hispanic (56%). Next come 33% White, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial, and 2% Black. That compares with about 43% Hispanic among all Adams County residents. The diversity index for Prairie View Middle School is 57%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 36.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 18.8 students per teacher. The gap from the 15.9:1 average for middle schools in Colorado is 2.9 students per teacher. Roughly 59% of students at Prairie View Middle School can receive free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, Prairie View Middle School lands at D, ahead of 13% of Colorado public middle schools.
Prairie View Middle School's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 22.5% is 8.5 points below the 31.0% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
The school's county is Adams County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $94,571, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 29%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. There are 171 public schools in the county, enrolling about 87,938, Prairie View Middle School among them.
A public school about 0.4 miles away, Prairie View High School, is the closest to Prairie View Middle School. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, Prairie View Middle School is behind the 27.0% nearby average, ranking 6th of 9.
The federal government classifies Prairie View Middle School's location as Suburb: Large.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose from 645 to 679, a 5% gain. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 22.2:1 to 18.8:1.
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Adams County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
530,225
Census ACS
Median income
$94,571
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
171
87,938 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in School District 27J
- Colorado Connections @ 27JCombined · 2,042 students
- Prairie View High SchoolHigh · 1,809 students
- Riverdale Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,784 students
- Brighton High SchoolHigh · 1,733 students
- Bromley East Charter SchoolElementary · 1,214 students
- Rodger Quist Middle SchoolMiddle · 855 students
Other schools in HENDERSON
- Prairie View High SchoolHigh · 1,809 students
- John W Thimmig Elementary SchoolElementary · 531 students
- Belle Creek Charter SchoolElementary · 519 students
- Henderson Elementary SchoolElementary · 357 students
Other Prairie View Middle schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Prairie View Middle. Prairie View Middle School is the 3rd largest of the 5.
- Prairie View Middle SchoolOTSEGO, MN · 953 students
- Prairie View MiddleSun Prairie, WI · 699 students
- Prairie View Middle SchoolTinley Park, IL · 579 students
- Prairie View MiddleLaCygne, KS · 195 students
Nearby schools
- Prairie View High School0.4 mi · 1,809
- Henderson Elementary School0.8 mi · 357
- John W Thimmig Elementary School1.1 mi · 531
- Turnberry Elementary1.7 mi · 742
- Landmark Academy at Reunion2.7 mi · 758
- Reunion Elementary School2.8 mi · 742
Frequently asked questions
About Prairie View Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Prairie View Middle School?
Prairie View Middle School enrolls approximately 679 students in grades 06-08.
Is Prairie View Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Prairie View Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Prairie View Middle School have?
Prairie View Middle School employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Prairie View Middle School?
Student demographics at Prairie View Middle School are roughly 33% White, 56% Hispanic, 2% Black, 5% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Prairie View Middle School in?
Prairie View Middle School is part of School District 27J.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.