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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

West Middle School, Grand Junction, CO

CEP schoolWest Middle School is a public middle school in Grand Junction, part of Mesa County Valley School District No. 51. It enrolled 468 students in 2024-25, with 16.7 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
468
Teachers (FTE)
28.0
Students per teacher
16.7
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is 1.0 higher than 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.

This school16.7
District15.7
Colorado16.7
United States15.3

School details

Address
123 W Orchard Ave, Grand Junction, CO 81505
Phone
(970)254-5090
District
Mesa County Valley School District No. 51
County
Mesa County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Small
NCES school ID
080435000629
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
229
Reduced-price lunch
15
Free or reduced-price lunch
24452.1% 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

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.