Summary:
Sargent School District No. Re-33J is served by a single middle school, Sargent Middle School, located in Monte Vista, Colorado, with 70 students across grades 6 through 8. Because this is the district's only middle-level campus, its results reflect the district's entire middle school performance. The district ranks 60th out of 115 Colorado districts, placing it in the 48th percentile with a 3-star rating.
Sargent Middle School is showing unmistakable momentum, climbing from the 39th percentile in state rankings during 2023-2024 to the 51st percentile in 2025-2026, and improving from a 2-star to a 3-star rating. The clearest academic strength is 7th-grade English Language Arts, where 58.8% of students were proficient in 2025-2026, a full 12.2 percentage points above the state average. However, the all-grades ELA proficiency rate of just 34% suggests other grade levels are pulling that average down. Math remains the most significant challenge: only 14% of all students were proficient in 2025-2026 versus 37.3% statewide, and 8th-grade math proficiency was 18.8% compared to the state's 37.8%. On the positive side, math proficiency did improve by 5.2 points year over year.
Science results illustrate the volatility common in very small schools: proficiency jumped from 54.5% in 2024-2025, well above the state's 36.4%, to just 25% in 2025-2026, below the state's 35.4%. With only 70 students, one cohort can dramatically shift these percentages. Chronic absenteeism is a bright spot at 20.0%, better than the district's 20.7% and well below the state's 28.4%. Nearly 46% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and the school offers a favorable 12:1 student-teacher ratio that may support individualized instruction. Parents should interpret proficiency scores with caution given the small enrollment, but the school's overall direction is encouraging as it builds momentum despite ongoing math challenges.
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