Overland Trail Middle School (6638)
455 NORTH 19TH AVENUE
BRIGHTON, CO 80601
569
Total Students Served
Grade 6 - Grade 8
School District:
School District 27J (0040)
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About Overland Trail Middle School (6638)
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Overland Trail Middle School
2025-2026
Overland Trail Middle School is a neighborhood school located in the northeast portion of the 27J School District. Built in 1984, the school serves as a feeder to Brighton High School. The school?s demographics as of the fall of 2025 are the following: 590 students for grades 6 through 8. approximately 70% free and reduced lunch, 75% minority, 17% of our students are on IEP?s, and 15% of our students can be classified as English Language Learners. Our school community has changed over the years,…
after being the only option for middle school students from 1984 through the 1990s, families now have a choice of two charter schools in our attendance area and if they qualify for gifted and talented, can opt-out of Overland Trail for our gifted and talented magnet school. A significant change to Overland Trail Middle School occurred in the year 2018. This is the year, based on community wants that Overland Trail completed its International Baccalaureate (IB) authorization. The journey to becoming authorized streamlined our school priorities and policies relating to unit planning, assessment, and the overall structure of our school. In creating our UIP for 25-26, we used our EASI grant funds to hire the consultancy group, Visionary Educational Consultancy (VEC). VEC, after a complete diagnostic of our school in 2019, worked with our teacher leadership team (PLT, pedagogical leadership team) in creating our UIP for the last two years. Through VEC?s Diagnostic Review Process, using the Colorado Four Domains for Improved Student Outcomes, it was determined that our PLT (Pedagogical Leadership Team) needed development and refinement to lead our UIP efforts to grow our school from Priority Improvement to Performance. The growth in the PLT Team, through EASI Implementation Planning, has been a key addition for our Major Improvement Strategy. Then, our teacher leadership shared our UIP with their teaching teams for input. Not only has the PLT grown, but our family and community engagement has also been enhanced through this process. Our PAT (parent accountability team) and DAC (district accountability team) have played a critical role in examining our root cause(s) and planning for the future of our school. Early Implementation funds from EASI have allowed us to continue to develop and refine our ILT and PTO Teams. We plan on applying for the next round of EASI funds to continue to implement our Major Improvement Strategy. We are happy to share that we have seen an improvement in parent involvement at our school for both English and Spanish speaking parents. Last spring we had over 15 parents participate in our inaugural parent accountability team, with roughly half being non English speaking. In regards to our most recent school performance data as measured by CMAS for achievement, Overland Trail MS was 0 for 12 concerning student achievement performance indicators as measured by CMAS 2024. For ELA and Math, our students who are considered English Learners, Free/Reduced lunch eligible, Minority, and Students with Disabilities had a rating of 'Does Not Meet'. As a staff, we will need to examine why we did not rate as 'meets' for these groups. In regards to CMAS growth, we moved to approaching for all categories except for students with disabilities in ELA. To uncover the Root Causes of our achievement struggles, a small team of administrators, instructional coaches, and teachers participated in a Root Cause analysis process during a summer retreat July of 2024. This process used a Fishbone, Circle Map, and The 5 Why protocol to uncover the root cause of our achievement problems. After the work was completed by the small team, the information was shared with PLT and our parent group. They gave additional input and insight around the root cause. .
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