Public school / Middle
Manning Options School
Golden, Colorado
- NCES ID
- 080480001746
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Manning Options School is a public middle school in Golden, Colorado, run by Jefferson County School District No. R-1. It enrols 670 students — the 21214th 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
670
Teachers
34.0
Students per teacher
19.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
11.0%
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 Jefferson County School District No. R-1
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.
- 1Lakewood High School1,885 students
- 2Ralston Valley Senior High School1,843 students
- 3Arvada West High School1,840 students
- 4Chatfield High School1,784 students
- 5Columbine High School1,686 students
- 6Bear Creek High School1,431 students
- 7Golden High School1,416 students
- 8Dakota Ridge Senior High School1,338 students
- Enrollment+82.1%
- Teachers+41.7%
- Students per teacher+23.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−75.1%
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