Summary:
The Gunnison Watershed School District Re1J in Colorado has one middle school, Gunnison Middle School, serving grades 6-8. The school's performance on various metrics, such as test scores and dropout rates, is generally below the district and state averages, suggesting it may be struggling to provide a high-quality education for its 304 students.
Gunnison Middle School has a 42.76% free and reduced-price lunch rate, indicating a relatively high proportion of students from low-income families. The school's proficiency rates on the CMAS exams were below the district and state averages in both English Language Arts and Math across all grade levels. For example, in 8th grade CMAS/Science, the school had a 28.6% proficiency rate, compared to the district's 25.4% and the state's 36.4%. The school's overall CMAS/English Language Arts proficiency rate for all grades was 40.8%, compared to the district's 44.9% and the state's 44.8%, and in CMAS/Math, the school's overall proficiency rate for all grades was 20.3%, significantly lower than the district's 33.7% and the state's 35.9%.
Additionally, Gunnison Middle School had a 27.7% chronic absenteeism rate in the 2023-2024 school year, which is relatively high, and the school's dropout rate for the same year was 1.9%. According to the SchoolDigger rankings, Gunnison Middle School has consistently ranked in the bottom half of Colorado middle schools, with a ranking of 288 out of 469 schools in the 2024-2025 school year, and a 2-star rating out of 5, indicating below-average performance compared to other Colorado middle schools.
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