Middle · Colorado
Watson Junior High School
Free meals for allWatson Junior High School, a public middle school in Colorado Springs, Colorado: grades 6–8, 470 students, 13.4 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of School District No. 3 in the county of El Paso and State of.
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
- 470
- Teachers (FTE)
- 35.0
- Students per teacher
- 13.4
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
Fewer students per teacher than 74% of middle schools in Colorado
Median 15.7 · 281 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 62% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Larger than 52% of middle schools in Colorado
Median 463 · 281 schools compared
Smaller than 56% 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%36%proficient
+1.7 points from 2023–24 school year
A lower share proficient than 63% of middle schools in Colorado
Median 42% · 267 middle schools compared
421 students tested, grades 3–8 · Colorado Measures of Academic Success; proficient means Levels 4-5
Math
Colorado: 36%22%proficient
+8.5 points from 2023–24 school year
A lower share proficient than 59% of middle schools in Colorado
Median 26% · 264 middle schools compared
408 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
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large suburb
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with School District No. 3 in the county of El Paso and State of.
Location
- Address
- 136 Fontaine Boulevard, Colorado Springs, CO 80911
- Phone
- (719)391-3255
- City or town
- Security-Widefield
- County
- El Paso County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher | Reading | Math |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Janitell Junior High SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 658 | 15.5 | 47% | 24% |
Sproul Junior High SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 504 | 14.4 | 50% | 31% |
Fountain Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 1,051 | 16.5 | 38% | 20% |
| 6–8 | 434 | 13.9 | 43% | 35% | |
| 6–8 | 657 | 15.9 | 27% | 15% | |
Panorama Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 339 | 11.9 | 19% | 6.0% |
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
- 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).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. 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 v3.1.
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.
NCES 080648001126