Watson Junior High School

Located at 136 FONTAINE BOULEVARD, in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Watson Junior High School is a medium-sized intermediate school that hosts 470 students (grades 6 through 8), part of School District No. 3 in the county of El Paso and State of.

School District No. 3 in the county of El Paso and State of runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 9,290 students. Watson Junior High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Watson Junior High School records that 50% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 32% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 8% Black. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Watson Junior High School shows 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against El Paso County (around 42%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Watson Junior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.4%; this one delivers 27.1%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for El Paso County put median household income runs about $90,363, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Watson Junior High School is one of 245 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students).

Nearest neighbor: Talbott STEAM Innovation School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Watson Junior High School. On composite proficiency, Watson Junior High School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.1%.

Watson Junior High School operates from a suburban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 35%: 727 students in 2018 compared to 470 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 27% to 32% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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