Rocky Top Middle School
Thornton, CO · Middle School · Grades 6-8
Rocky Top Middle School is a middle school in Thornton, CO with 1,001 students enrolled and a 62% proficiency rate. Part of Adams 12 Five Star Schools. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Rocky Top Middle School is a middle school located in Thornton, Colorado. The school serves 1,001 students in grades 6-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.9:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 62% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
23% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Rocky Top Middle School is part of the Adams 12 Five Star Schools in Colorado.
How This School Compares
Rocky Top Middle School has 1,001 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Adams 12 Five Star Schools (650 students). Its 62% proficiency rate is 13 percentage points above the district average of 49%. Compared to the Colorado state average of 51%, the school performs 11 points higher.
Frequently Asked Questions
Rocky Top Middle School has 1,001 students enrolled in grades 6-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.9:1.
According to EDFacts data, 62% of students at Rocky Top Middle School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Rocky Top Middle School is part of the Adams 12 Five Star Schools in Thornton, Colorado. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment dataset. The detail above comes directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. public schools and districts.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.