Delta Middle School

Delta Middle School is a public middle school located in Delta, Colorado, serving grades 6-8 with a total enrollment of 497 students. The school is part of the Delta County Joint District No. 50, which is ranked 38 out of 115 school districts in Colorado and has a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger.

While Delta Middle School has consistently ranked in the bottom half of Colorado middle schools, it performs better for Hispanic students, ranking in the top half of Colorado middle schools for this subgroup in recent years. However, the school struggles with White student performance, ranking in the bottom quarter of Colorado middle schools for this subgroup. Proficiency rates in CMAS assessments are consistently below the state and district averages in both English Language Arts (ELA) and Math, with particularly low Math proficiency rates of around 15-20% across all grade levels. The school also has relatively high chronic absenteeism rates, ranging from 27.5% to 36.3% in recent years, and higher-than-desirable dropout rates.

Interestingly, Cedaredge Middle School, located 13.3 miles from Delta Middle School, consistently outperforms Delta Middle School in academic achievement, with higher proficiency rates in both ELA and Math across all grade levels. This suggests that there may be opportunities for Delta Middle School to learn from the practices and strategies employed at Cedaredge Middle School to improve student outcomes. Additionally, Delta Middle School's proximity to Delta Academy of Applied Learning, a much smaller public middle school with only 25 students, raises questions about the potential for collaboration, resource sharing, or specialized programming to better serve the diverse needs of the student population.