Trail Ridge Middle School

Trail Ridge Middle School operates as a moderately sized middle-grades school in LONGMONT, Colorado, run under St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J. Current enrollment sits at 435 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J runs 54 schools in total, collectively educating 31,607 students. Trail Ridge Middle School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Trail Ridge Middle School logs that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 37% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Boulder County as a whole is about 15% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Trail Ridge Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Boulder County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Trail Ridge Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.5%; this one delivers 29.8%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Boulder County indicate median household income runs about $103,994, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Trail Ridge Middle School is one of 86 public schools in Boulder County (combined enrollment of about 42,200 students).

Nearest neighbor: Fall River Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Trail Ridge Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Trail Ridge Middle School's enrollment has contracted 38% since 2018, when it stood at 701 (now 435). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 53% to 58%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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