Summary:
The four public middle schools in zip code 80016 (Aurora, CO) serve grades 6–8 and belong to Cherry Creek School District No. 5, a 4-star district ranked 26th out of 115 in Colorado. Together, Infinity Middle School, Fox Ridge Middle School, Liberty Middle School, and Falcon Creek Middle School enroll 3,555 students, and all four schools outperform the state average in both ELA and math.
Liberty Middle School is the highest-ranked school in the area (83rd of 469) and posts the strongest math (57.1%) and science (55.9%) proficiency, though it also has the highest chronic absenteeism rate (29.3%). Fox Ridge Middle School stands out for the highest ELA proficiency (59.5%) and the lowest chronic absenteeism (16.8%). Infinity Middle School is the largest, with 1,020 students, and shows impressive grade-level growth in both ELA and math from 6th to 8th grade. Falcon Creek Middle School, while having the lowest student-teacher ratio (14.3), ranks lowest in the group and would benefit from targeted support in math and science.
The zip code average for chronic absenteeism (22.4%) is below both the district (25.3%) and state (28.4%), but Liberty's rate remains a concern. Notably, smaller class sizes at Falcon Creek do not translate into higher scores, while Liberty outperforms it by 17 points in math with a slightly higher student-teacher ratio. Across the four schools, proficiency gaps are significant—12.1 points in ELA, 17.0 in math, and 17.6 in science—showing that even within the same district and zip code, school-level factors matter. Overall, this is a strong cluster of middle schools, with Liberty and Fox Ridge leading academically and Falcon Creek in need of the most improvement.
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