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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Shadow Ridge Middle School, Thornton, CO

CEP schoolShadow Ridge Middle School is a public middle school in Thornton, part of Adams 12 Five Star Schools. It enrolled 632 students in 2024-25, with 16.6 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
632
Teachers (FTE)
38.0
Students per teacher
16.6
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 17.3. The Colorado average across schools is 16.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school16.6
District17.3
Colorado16.7
United States15.3

School details

Address
12551 Holly Street, Thornton, CO 80602
Phone
(720)972-5040
District
Adams 12 Five Star Schools
County
Adams County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
080690001186
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
296
Reduced-price lunch
67
Free or reduced-price lunch
36357.4% 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 Adams 12 Five Star Schools

Middle schools elsewhere in Thornton

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.