Public school / Middle / Charter
Dsst: Cole Middle School
Denver, Colorado
- NCES ID
- 080336006523
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Dsst: Cole Middle School is a public middle school in Denver, Colorado, run by School District No. 1 in the County of Denver and State of C. It enrols 274 students — the 69162nd largest of 1,965 public schools in Colorado.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
274
Teachers
18.0
Students per teacher
15.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
92.7%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within School District No. 1 in the County of Denver and State of C
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1East High School2,505 students
- 2Northfield High School1,872 students
- 3South High School1,844 students
- 4North High School1,637 students
- 5Mcauliffe International School1,487 students
- 6Thomas Jefferson High School1,329 students
- 7George Washington High School1,270 students
- 8Montbello High School1,130 students
- Enrollment−25.5%
- Teachers−25.0%
- Students per teacher−5.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+109.7%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory