Prairie View Middle School

Prairie View Middle School operates as a medium-sized intermediate school in HENDERSON, Colorado, run under School District 27J. Current enrollment sits at 679 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 462 students per school, that is 47% larger than typical.

Prairie View Middle School is one of 33 schools operated by School District 27J, a district that teaches 24,044 students overall.

Demographically, Prairie View Middle School lists that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 33% White, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Adams County as a whole is about 43% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Prairie View Middle School reports 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Prairie View Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Prairie View Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.0%, the actual is 22.5%, a residual of -8.5 points.

In the area at large, Adams County reports that median household earnings sit near $94,571, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Prairie View Middle School is one of 171 public schools in Adams County (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students).

The closest other public school is Prairie View High School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Prairie View Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 27.0%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 22%: 871 students in 2018 compared to 679 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 44% to 33% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 in 2025.

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