Public school / Middle
John Wesley Powell Middle School
Littleton, Colorado
- NCES ID
- 080531001351
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
John Wesley Powell Middle School is a public middle school in Littleton, Colorado, run by Littleton School District No. 6 in the County of Arapahoe. It enrols 526 students — the 34242nd 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
526
Teachers
35.0
Students per teacher
15.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
14.8%
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 Littleton School District No. 6 in the County of Arapahoe
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.
- 1Arapahoe High School1,820 students
- 2Heritage High School1,754 students
- 3Littleton High School1,224 students
- 4Newton Middle School791 students
- 5Euclid Middle School726 students
- 6Ford Elementary705 students
- 7Wilder Elementary School601 students
- 8Goddard Middle School552 students
- Enrollment+42.9%
- Teachers+45.8%
- Students per teacher−6.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−66.5%
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