West Middle School

West Middle School is one of the tight-knit junior highs in DENVER, Colorado, run under School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C, with 188 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 462 students per school, that is 59% below typical.

School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C comprises 198 schools with combined enrollment of 90,471 students; West Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, West Middle School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%). Beyond that, the school lists 9% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Denver County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, West Middle School lists 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting West Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Denver County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), West Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 8.7%, the actual is 10.9%, a residual of +2.2 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Denver County put the typical household earns roughly $94,718 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Denver County runs 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students), of which West Middle School is one.

West High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, West Middle School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 24.3%.

West Middle School operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West Middle School has ticked down 73%, going from 686 students in 2018 to 188 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 4% to 9% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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