Middle · Colorado

Fox Ridge Middle School

Fox Ridge Middle School, a public middle school in Aurora, Colorado: grades 6–8, 966 students, 17.4 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah.

Size and class size

Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.

Students
966
Teachers (FTE)
55.6
Students per teacher
17.4
Grades
6–8
Middle

More students per teacher than 72% of middle schools in Colorado

Median 15.7 · 281 schools compared

More students per teacher than 73% of middle schools in the US

Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared

Larger than 95% of middle schools in Colorado

Median 463 · 281 schools compared

Larger than 89% of middle schools in the US

Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared

State test results

Share of students scoring proficient or above on Colorado's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.

Reading and writing

Colorado: 45%

58%proficient

+1.2 points from 2023–24 school year

A higher share proficient than 75% of middle schools in Colorado

Median 42% · 267 middle schools compared

691 students tested, grades 3–8 · Colorado Measures of Academic Success; proficient means Levels 4-5

Math

Colorado: 36%

41%proficient

+0.7 points from 2023–24 school year

A higher share proficient than 73% of middle schools in Colorado

Median 26% · 264 middle schools compared

694 students tested, grades 3–8 · Colorado Measures of Academic Success; proficient means Levels 4-5

Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.

Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.

What it offers

Grades
Middle · Grades 6–8
Type
District school · Regular
Instruction
In person
Area
Large city

Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah.

Location

Address
26301 East Arapahoe Road, Aurora, CO 80016
Phone
(720)886-4700
City or town
Aurora

Nearby middle schools

The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.

SchoolGradesStudentsStudents / teacherReadingMath
Infinity Middle SchoolFree meals for all
6–81,02016.955%44%
Liberty Middle SchoolFree meals for all
6–886816.651%47%
Thunder Ridge Middle SchoolFree meals for all
6–81,10615.744%33%
Falcon Creek Middle SchoolFree meals for all
6–870114.349%38%
Sky Vista Middle SchoolFree meals for all
6–896917.850%33%
7–880515.953%43%

Reading and Math: share of tested students proficient or above on the state's own tests (grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year). Compare only within a state.

Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.

Sources

Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.

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