Public school / Middle
Walt Clark Middle School
Loveland, Colorado
- NCES ID
- 080540001286
- District
- Thompson School District R-2j
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Walt Clark Middle School is a public middle school in Loveland, Colorado, run by Thompson School District R-2j. It enrols 366 students — the 56073rd 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
366
Teachers
23.0
Students per teacher
15.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
38.5%
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 Thompson School District R-2j
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.
- 1Loveland High School1,525 students
- 2Mountain View High School1,138 students
- 3Thompson Valley High School1,039 students
- 4New Vision Charter School998 students
- 5Loveland Classical School989 students
- 6Lucile Erwin Middle School712 students
- 7Berthoud High School691 students
- 8Riverview Pk-8647 students
- Enrollment−0.5%
- Teachers−4.2%
- Students per teacher−0.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−12.9%
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