Scotts Ridge Middle School serves about 600 students in grades six through eight. It is one of the two middle schools in Ridgefield and is located on a campus adjacent to Ridgefield High School.

Students are required to take math, English, science, social studies, physical education, a world language, art, life education and music during all three years at Scotts Ridge. Teachers are divided into teams at each grade level, so the same group of students takes all core curriculum courses from the same subject teachers. Language options are French, German, Mandarin Chinese or Spanish.

The principal of Scotts Ridge is Marie Doyon and the assistant principal is Michael Sheehan.