West Middle School

West Middle School is a junior high of rural-scale scale in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, operated by Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E, teacheing 119 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 74% below the state mean of about 462.

Across the 60 schools in Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E (22,293 students total), West Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, West Middle School lists that 45% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 38% White, 10% multiracial, 6% Black. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above El Paso County's rate of about 42%.

After controlling for student poverty, West Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.8%, the actual is 21.0%, a residual of +3.2 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (El Paso County) logs that median household earnings sit near $90,363, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), West Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is West Elementary School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts West Middle School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 38.8%.

West Middle School operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West Middle School has contracted 59%, going from 292 students in 2018 to 119 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 60% to 38% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 today.

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