Middle · Colorado

Shaw Heights Middle School

Free meals for all

Shaw Heights Middle School, a public middle school in Westminster, Colorado: grades 6–8, 321 students, 17.8 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Westminster Public Schools.

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: 321
Teachers (FTE): 18.1
Students per teacher: 17.8
Grades: 6–8; Middle

More students per teacher than 76% of middle schools in Colorado

Median 15.7 · 281 schools compared

More students per teacher than 76% of middle schools in the US

Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared

Smaller than 67% of middle schools in Colorado

Median 463 · 281 schools compared

Smaller than 73% of middle schools in the US

Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared

What it offers

Grades: Middle · Grades 6–8
Type: District school · Regular
Instruction: In person
Meals: Free breakfast and lunch for every student
Area: Large suburb
Run by: Westminster Public Schools

Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Westminster Public Schools.

Location

Address: 8780 Circle Drive, Westminster, CO 80030
Phone: (303)428-9533
City or town: Shaw Heights
County: Adams County

Quality of life in Shaw Heights Schools in Shaw Heights

Nearby middle schools

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

School	Grades	Students	Students / teacher
Colorado Preparatory Academy Middle SchoolFully virtual	6–8	681	20.6	0.8 mi
Mandalay Middle SchoolFree meals for all	6–8	443	16.8	2.2 mi
North Arvada Middle SchoolFree meals for all	6–8	464	17.4	2.7 mi
Global Intermediate AcademyFree meals for all	4–8	346	19.2	3.2 mi
Thornton Middle SchoolFree meals for all	6–8	721	16.4	3.3 mi
Wayne Carle Middle SchoolFree meals for all	6–8	438	17.9	4.2 mi

Sources

Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).

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