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If you could change one rule at Summit Ridge Middle School, what would it be?
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Enrollment
851
Middle
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. R-1·NCES 080480001054
Summit Ridge Middle School
11809 WEST COAL MINE ROAD, LITTLETON, CO 80127 · (303) 982-9013 · Jefferson County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL851 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 39% of Colorado public middle schools
- BTest 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
19.6:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.6:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
207 students
DISTRICT 35% · 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 | 297 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 270 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 284 | 33% |
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
41.4%
CO avg 44.9% . -5.9pp since 2023
Math
36.4%
CO avg 36.1% . +2.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.4% | 36.4% |
| 2023-24 | 47.3% | 34.1% |
% 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
40.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.0%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 Summit Ridge Middle School
Summit Ridge Middle School's state test result (40.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summit Ridge Middle School this school | 851 | 24.3% | 40.8% |
| Ken Caryl Middle School LITTLETON | 725 | 27.0% | 42.6% |
| Sierra Middle School PARKER | 805 | 26.8% | 43.3% |
| Dunstan Middle School LAKEWOOD | 798 | 28.2% | 43.5% |
| Castle Rock Middle School CASTLE ROCK | 660 | 25.9% | 44.4% |
| Timberview Middle School COLORADO SPRINGS | 837 | 31.8% | 43.8% |
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 Summit Ridge Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.8% | #86 of 241 | #13 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.4% | #81 of 244 ▲ 2 | #12 of 19 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.4% | #127 of 246 ▼ 35 | #15 of 19 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 851 | #23 of 278 | #2 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.6:1 | #215 of 227 | #15 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.5% | #116 of 227 | #7 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.3% | #210 of 246 | #11 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +22.8% | #11 of 55 | #5 of 13 |
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
851
-162 (-16%) vs 2020
-2% since 2000-01, when it was 871
Student : Teacher
19.6:1
was 20.3:1
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 | 851 | 43.5 | 19.6:1 | 24% (207) |
| 2023-24 | 875 | 44.1 | 19.9:1 | 27% (239) |
| 2022-23 | 909 | 48.1 | 18.9:1 | 27% (241) |
| 2020-21 | 1,013 | 50 | 20.3:1 | 23% (232) |
| 2017-18 | 693 | 37.4 | 18.6:1 | 19% (129) |
| 2015-16 | 798 | 40 | 19.9:1 | 20% (160) |
| 2010-11 | 822 | 40 | 20.6:1 | 17% (136) |
| 2000-01 | 871 | 42 | 20.7:1 | 4% (37) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Summit Ridge Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 23% (693 to 851); teachers up 16% (37.4 to 43.5).
About Summit Ridge Middle School
Summit Ridge Middle School is a large middle school in Colorado, with an address in LITTLETON. There are 851 students enrolled, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 84% above the 462-student average for middle schools in Colorado.
Summit Ridge Middle School is one of the 148 schools that make up Jefferson County School District No. R-1 (74,935 students in total).
More than half of the students at Summit Ridge Middle School are White (67%). Beyond that, enrollment is 22% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 4% Asian. In Jefferson County overall, about 80% of residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 51%.
Its staff includes 43.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 19.6 students per teacher. Compared with the 15.9:1 average for middle schools in Colorado, this school's ratio is higher. Roughly 24% of students at Summit Ridge Middle School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 32% average for public schools in Jefferson County, the school's rate is lower.
Among Colorado public middle schools, Summit Ridge Middle School outscored 39%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
Summit Ridge Middle School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Colorado schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 40.8% and a predicted 52.0%.
In Jefferson County, median household income comes to about $110,656, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 52% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. The county's public schools total 168, with about 74,739 students.
Summit Ridge Middle School is about 0.2 miles from Powderhorn Elementary School, its nearest public school. Summit Ridge Middle School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: Summit Ridge Middle School ranks 6th of 9 nearby schools, at 40.8% versus a 50.3% average.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment decreased by 16% across 4 years, from 1,013 in 2020-21 to 851 in 2024-25.
The discussion board for Summit Ridge Middle School is open to topics like special education services, counseling, and support programs. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Jefferson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,377
Census ACS
Median income
$110,656
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
52%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
168
74,739 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jefferson County School District No. R-1
- Arvada West High SchoolHigh · 1,923 students
- Ralston Valley Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,875 students
- Chatfield High SchoolHigh · 1,808 students
- Lakewood High SchoolHigh · 1,735 students
- Columbine High SchoolHigh · 1,710 students
- Golden High SchoolHigh · 1,469 students
Other schools in LITTLETON
- Chatfield High SchoolHigh · 1,808 students
- Heritage High SchoolHigh · 1,748 students
- Columbine High SchoolHigh · 1,710 students
- Dakota Ridge Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,277 students
- Littleton High SchoolHigh · 1,187 students
- Rocky Heights Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,129 students
Nearby schools
- Powderhorn Elementary School0.2 mi · 522
- Mount Carbon Elementary School0.9 mi · 367
- Westridge Elementary School1.0 mi · 400
- Dakota Ridge Senior High School1.0 mi · 1,277
- Chatfield High School1.1 mi · 1,808
- Montessori Peaks Charter Academy1.2 mi · 444
Frequently asked questions
About Summit Ridge Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Summit Ridge Middle School?
Summit Ridge Middle School enrolls approximately 851 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Summit Ridge Middle School serve?
Summit Ridge Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Summit Ridge Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Summit Ridge Middle School is approximately 19.6:1 (44 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Summit Ridge Middle School?
Summit Ridge Middle School reports a student body of 67% White, 22% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Summit Ridge Middle School?
Summit Ridge Middle School is overseen by Jefferson County School District No. R-1 in Jefferson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.