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Enrollment
435
Middle
DISTRICT 566 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. VRAIN VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. RE1J·NCES 080537001891
Trail Ridge Middle School
1000 BUTTON ROCK DRIVE, LONGMONT, CO 80501 · (720) 494-3820 · Boulder County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL435 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 49% of Colorado public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
14.7:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.8:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
260 students
DISTRICT 39% · 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 | 138 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 150 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 147 | 34% |
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
37.8%
CO avg 44.9% . +5.5pp since 2023
Math
27.7%
CO avg 36.1% . +5.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.8% | 27.7% |
| 2023-24 | 32.3% | 22.4% |
% 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
29.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.5%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% 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 Trail Ridge Middle School
Trail Ridge Middle School's state test result (29.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trail Ridge Middle School this school | 435 | 59.8% | 29.8% |
| Weld Central Middle School KEENESBURG | 403 | 58.3% | 17.7% |
| Sunset Middle School LONGMONT | 316 | 58.5% | 30.8% |
| Casey Middle School BOULDER | 363 | 65.0% | 29.8% |
| Glenwood Springs Middle School GLENWOOD SPRINGS | 380 | 58.7% | 23.8% |
| Basalt Middle School BASALT | 367 | 55.6% | 27.5% |
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 Trail Ridge Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Boulder County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.8% | #139 of 241 | #12 of 13 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.7% | #113 of 244 ▲ 17 | #10 of 13 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.8% | #147 of 246 ▲ 12 | #11 of 13 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 435 | #151 of 278 | #9 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #76 of 227 | #4 of 13 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.9% | #98 of 227 | #6 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.8% | #88 of 246 | #3 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -37.9% | #20 of 169 | #3 of 12 |
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
435
-174 (-29%) vs 2020
-31% since 2010-11, when it was 632
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 18.4:1
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 | 435 | 29.5 | 14.7:1 | 60% (260) |
| 2023-24 | 470 | 30.7 | 15.3:1 | 57% (269) |
| 2022-23 | 522 | 30.5 | 17.1:1 | 65% (339) |
| 2020-21 | 609 | 33 | 18.4:1 | 64% (388) |
| 2017-18 | 701 | 36.9 | 19.0:1 | 51% (358) |
| 2015-16 | 696 | 36 | 19.3:1 | 47% (327) |
| 2010-11 | 632 | 37 | 17.1:1 | 43% (270) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Trail Ridge Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 38% (701 to 435); teachers down 20% (36.9 to 29.5).
About Trail Ridge Middle School
Trail Ridge Middle School is a mid-sized middle school in St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J, located in LONGMONT, Colorado. Enrollment stands at 435 students, covering grades 6 through 8.
St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J has 31,607 students in 54 schools, and Trail Ridge Middle School is one of those schools.
More than half of enrollment at Trail Ridge Middle School is Hispanic: 58%. Next come 37% White and 3% multiracial. The county population is about 15% Hispanic. The diversity index for Trail Ridge Middle School is 53%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school has 29.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 14.7 students per teacher. Middle schools in Colorado average 15.9:1, 1.2 more students per teacher than here. Of all students at Trail Ridge Middle School, 60% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Boulder County report 33%.
Trail Ridge Middle School holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 49% of Colorado public middle schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Trail Ridge Middle School would be expected to post about 30.5%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 29.8%.
In the surrounding county, Boulder County, the median household earns about $103,994 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 64%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Boulder County has 86 public schools with about 42,200 students, including Trail Ridge Middle School.
Fall River Elementary School, about 0.5 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. On average proficiency, Trail Ridge Middle School is 4th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Mid-size. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
A 29% decline took enrollment from 609 in 2020-21 to 435 in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (14.7:1) than in 2020-21 (18.4:1).
Trail Ridge Middle School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Boulder County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
328,961
Census ACS
Median income
$103,994
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
64%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
86
42,200 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J
- Erie High SchoolHigh · 1,727 students
- Niwot High SchoolHigh · 1,509 students
- Frederick Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,491 students
- Longmont High SchoolHigh · 1,268 students
- Soaring Heights PK-8Elementary · 1,211 students
- Silver Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,208 students
Other schools in LONGMONT
- Longmont High SchoolHigh · 1,268 students
- Silver Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,208 students
- Mead High SchoolHigh · 1,174 students
- Skyline High SchoolHigh · 1,082 students
- Twin Peaks Classical AcademyCombined · 879 students
- Timberline PK-8Elementary · 762 students
Other Trail Ridge Middle schools
One other US public school is named Trail Ridge Middle. Trail Ridge Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Trail Ridge Middle SchoolGardner, KS · 679 students
Nearby schools
- Fall River Elementary School0.5 mi · 520
- Rocky Mountain Elementary School1.2 mi · 315
- Skyline High School1.3 mi · 1,082
- Timberline PK-81.5 mi · 762
- Alpine Elementary School1.9 mi · 388
- Columbine Elementary School2.0 mi · 231
Frequently asked questions
About Trail Ridge Middle SchoolHow many students attend Trail Ridge Middle School?
Trail Ridge Middle School enrolls approximately 435 students in grades 06-08.
Is Trail Ridge Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Trail Ridge Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Trail Ridge Middle School have?
Trail Ridge Middle School employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.7:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Trail Ridge Middle School?
At Trail Ridge Middle School, the student body is approximately 37% White, 58% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Trail Ridge Middle School?
Trail Ridge Middle School is overseen by St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J in Boulder County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.