Villa Bella Expeditionary Middle School

Villa Bella Expeditionary Middle School is a middle-grades school of minimally staffed scale in PUEBLO, Colorado, one of the schools within Pueblo County School District 70, educateing 141 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 69% smaller than the state mean of about 462.

Pueblo County School District 70 runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 10,563 students. Villa Bella Expeditionary Middle School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Villa Bella Expeditionary Middle School lists that 55% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 36% White, 7% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

On the income-and-resources front, Villa Bella Expeditionary Middle School logs 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Roughly 46% of students at Villa Bella Expeditionary Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Pueblo County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Villa Bella Expeditionary Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.8%, the actual is 33.2%, a residual of -5.6 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Pueblo County) logs that median household income runs about $64,010, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Villa Bella Expeditionary Middle School is one of 66 public schools in Pueblo County (combined enrollment of about 32,254 students).

The closest other public school is Villa Bella Expeditionary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Villa Bella Expeditionary Middle School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Villa Bella Expeditionary Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 24.3%.

Villa Bella Expeditionary Middle School operates from a high-density location. Villa Bella Expeditionary Middle School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Villa Bella Expeditionary Middle School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.