Public school / Middle
Sunset Middle School
Longmont, Colorado
- NCES ID
- 080537000908
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Sunset Middle School is a public middle school in Longmont, Colorado, run by St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1j. It enrols 377 students — the 54428th 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
377
Teachers
26.0
Students per teacher
14.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
56.8%
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 St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1j
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.
- 1Erie High School1,754 students
- 2Frederick Senior High School1,412 students
- 3Niwot High School1,355 students
- 4Skyline High School1,354 students
- 5Longmont High School1,262 students
- 6Silver Creek High School1,250 students
- 7Soaring Heights Pk-81,242 students
- 8Mead High School1,119 students
- Enrollment+2.4%
- Teachers+8.3%
- Students per teacher−9.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+28.5%
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