Summit Ridge Middle School

Set in LITTLETON, Colorado, Summit Ridge Middle School is a sprawling junior high, part of Jefferson County School District No. R-1. It instructs 851 students across grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 462 students per school, that is 84% above typical.

Across the 148 schools in Jefferson County School District No. R-1 (74,935 students total), Summit Ridge Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Summit Ridge Middle School logs that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 22% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Roughly 24% of students at Summit Ridge Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Jefferson County (around 32%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Summit Ridge Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.8%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) logs that median household earnings sit near $110,656, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Jefferson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students), of which Summit Ridge Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Powderhorn Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Summit Ridge Middle School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Summit Ridge Middle School has climbed 23%, going from 693 students in 2018 to 851 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 in 2025.

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