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Sproul Junior High School
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsWhat this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Sproul Junior High School
Sproul Junior High School is an intermediate school of reasonably sized scale in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, operated by School District No. 3 in the county of El Paso and State of, teacheing 504 students in grades 6 through 8.
School District No. 3 in the county of El Paso and State of runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 9,290 students. Sproul Junior High School is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Sproul Junior High School reports that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 34% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 8% Black, 3% Pacific Islander. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Sproul Junior High School lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 47% 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 residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sproul Junior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.3%; this one delivers 37.7%.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Sproul Junior High School is one of 245 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students).
The closest other public school is Widefield District 3 Preschool, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sproul Junior High School. On composite proficiency, Sproul Junior High School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.9%.
Sproul Junior High School operates from an outer-ring location.
Over the past 7-year window. Sproul Junior High School's enrollment has decreased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 563 (now 504). Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.
Inside the community feed, the feed for Sproul Junior High School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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