Summary:
Weld County Reorganized School District No. Re-1 includes two middle schools serving grades 6 through 8 — North Valley Middle School in Gilcrest and South Valley Middle School in Platteville — with a combined enrollment of 391 students and a district rating of 1 star, ranking 83rd out of 115 Colorado districts.
North Valley Middle School is the clear academic standout. Its 2024-2025 ELA proficiency rate of 42.6% nearly matches the state's 44.8% and is far above South Valley's 25.5%. North Valley also outperforms South Valley in math (22.0% vs. 13.1%) and science (29.5% vs. 23.9%), and earned a 3-star rating with a 225th-place state ranking. South Valley Middle School offers a smaller, more personalized environment with a better student-teacher ratio (10.9 vs. 13.3) and slightly lower poverty rates, but has consistently received 1-star ratings and sits in the bottom third of Colorado middle schools.
Both schools face significant challenges, especially in math, where proficiency trails the state's 35.9% by wide margins. Chronic absenteeism affects 25.9% of North Valley students and 28.0% at South Valley. Bright spots include South Valley's 6th-grade math proficiency of 25.6%, above the district's 18.3%, and North Valley's low 0.6% dropout rate. However, North Valley's state rank slipped from the 52nd percentile in 2024-2025 back to the 35th percentile in 2025-2026, while South Valley's ELA proficiency declines from 35.9% in 6th grade to just 19.6% in 8th grade — a sign that students fall further behind as they advance.
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