Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
Orchard Mesa Middle School, Grand Junction, CO
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 560
- Teachers (FTE)
- 35.0
- Students per teacher
- 16.0
- Grades
- 6 to 8
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 15.7. The Colorado average across schools is 16.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 2736 Unaweep Ave #a, Grand Junction, CO 81503
- Phone
- (970)254-6320
- County
- Mesa County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Small
- NCES school ID
- 080435000619
School meals
- Free lunch
- 279
- Reduced-price lunch
- 51
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 33058.9% of enrollment.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other middle schools in Mesa County Valley School District No. 51
- Fruita Middle School 690 students
- Redlands Middle School 632 students
- Mount Garfield Middle School 569 students
- Bookcliff Middle School 525 students
- Grand Mesa Middle School 476 students
- West Middle School 468 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.