Shaw Heights Middle School

Shaw Heights Middle School is a low-enrollment middle-grades school in WESTMINSTER, Colorado, operated by Westminster Public Schools. The school caters to 321 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 462 students per school, that is 31% leaner than typical.

Westminster Public Schools runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 7,724 students. Shaw Heights Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Shaw Heights Middle School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 75% of enrollment; the rest reads as 15% White, 4% Asian, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Adams County's rate of about 62%.

With demographic context factored in, Shaw Heights Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 14.2%; this one delivers 13.4%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Adams County indicate median household income runs about $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. Across Adams County's 171 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students), Shaw Heights Middle School is one campus in the mix.

John E. Flynn A Marzano Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Shaw Heights Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 26.5%.

Shaw Heights Middle School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 43%: 566 students in 2018 compared to 321 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 68% to 75% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 in 2025.

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