Redlands Middle School

Redlands Middle School operates as a middle-of-the-pack middle school in GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado, overseen by Mesa County Valley School District No. 51. Current enrollment sits at 632 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 462 students each, so Redlands Middle School sits 37% bigger than that benchmark.

Mesa County Valley School District No. 51 comprises 45 schools with combined enrollment of 20,344 students; Redlands Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Redlands Middle School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Mesa County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Redlands Middle School records 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Around 25% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Mesa County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Redlands Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.1%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Mesa County indicate median household earnings sit near $73,658, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Mesa County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,232 students), Redlands Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Broadway Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Redlands Middle School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 57.9%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Redlands Middle School's enrollment has increased 14% since 2018, when it stood at 556 (now 632). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 today.

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