Public school / Middle
Mountain Ridge Middle School
Highlands Ranch, Colorado
- NCES ID
- 080345001747
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Mountain Ridge Middle School is a public middle school in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, run by Douglas County School District No. Re 1. It enrols 865 students — the 11871st 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
865
Teachers
44.0
Students per teacher
19.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
7.6%
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 Douglas County School District No. Re 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.
- 1American Academy2,559 students
- 2Rock Canyon High School2,377 students
- 3Mountain Vista High School2,259 students
- 4Legend High School2,228 students
- 5Chaparral High School2,009 students
- 6Castle View High School1,990 students
- 7Thunderridge High School1,881 students
- 8Douglas County High School1,758 students
- Enrollment+135.1%
- Teachers+83.3%
- Students per teacher+23.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−82.8%
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