Enrollment
310
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. R-1·NCES 080480001446
Adams Elementary School
6450 WEST 95TH PLACE, WESTMINSTER, CO 80021 · (303) 982-9790 · Jefferson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL310 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% of Colorado public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.2:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
130 students
DISTRICT 35% · STATE 50%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 61 | 20% |
| Kindergarten | 50 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 42 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 45 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 38 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 31 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 61% larger than its 5th grade class (31).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
31.0%
CO avg 44.9% . -3.3pp since 2023
Math
23.2%
CO avg 36.1% . +0.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.0% | 23.2% |
| 2023-24 | 34.3% | 22.6% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
27.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.3%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 41% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Adams Elementary School
Adams Elementary School's state test result (27.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adams Elementary School this school | 310 | 41.9% | 27.1% |
| Whittier Elementary School BOULDER | 269 | 42.0% | 40.3% |
| Centennial Academy of Fine Arts Education LITTLETON | 334 | 44.6% | 33.0% |
| Eagle Crest Elementary School LONGMONT | 421 | 44.9% | 48.8% |
| Crest View Elementary School BOULDER | 390 | 35.6% | 54.7% |
| Cotton Creek Elementary School WESTMINSTER | 455 | 43.5% | 53.5% |
Matched among Colorado elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Adams Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.1% | #632 of 931 | #69 of 82 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.2% | #656 of 940 ▼ 7 | #71 of 85 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #640 of 946 ▼ 54 | #73 of 85 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 310 | #688 of 1,056 | #68 of 89 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.2:1 | #786 of 896 | #80 of 86 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.5% | #181 of 896 | #6 of 86 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.9% | #562 of 983 | #24 of 85 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.0% | #99 of 664 | #6 of 62 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
310
-24 (-7%) vs 2020
-52% since 1990-91, when it was 644
Student : Teacher
18.2:1
was 14.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 310 | 17.1 | 18.2:1 | 42% (130) |
| 2023-24 | 317 | 18.2 | 17.4:1 | 44% (141) |
| 2022-23 | 314 | 18.6 | 16.9:1 | 40% (125) |
| 2020-21 | 334 | 23 | 14.5:1 | 40% (134) |
| 2017-18 | 449 | 23.8 | 18.9:1 | 36% (162) |
| 2015-16 | 477 | 27 | 17.7:1 | 28% (135) |
| 2010-11 | 505 | 21 | 24.1:1 | 30% (153) |
| 2000-01 | 369 | 16 | 23.1:1 | 13% (49) |
| 1990-91 | 644 | 28 | 23.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Adams Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (449 to 310); teachers down 28% (23.8 to 17.1).
About Adams Elementary School
Adams Elementary School is a small elementary school. Its address is in WESTMINSTER, Colorado. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 310 students.
Adams Elementary School is run by Jefferson County School District No. R-1, whose 148 schools enroll 74,935 students.
White students account for 50% of enrollment at Adams Elementary School. The remaining students are 35% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian, and 3% Black. Census figures show Jefferson County is about 80% White. The chance that two students picked at random at Adams Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 61%.
Adams Elementary School's 17.1 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 18.2:1. That ratio is over the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 42%. The gap from the 32% average for public schools in Jefferson County is 10 points.
allk12 grades Adams Elementary School a D. The grade compares the school only with Colorado public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Adams Elementary School is a bottom-10% school in Colorado on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 27.1% against a predicted 41.3%.
Among Jefferson County residents, median household income is about $110,656, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 52%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Adams Elementary School is one of 168 public schools in Jefferson County, which together enroll about 74,739 students.
Mandalay Middle School is the public school closest to Adams Elementary School, about 0.5 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Adams Elementary School ranks 6th of 7 on average proficiency.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 334 to 310. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 14.5:1 to 18.2:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss science fairs, picture day, and bus routes at Adams Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Jefferson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,377
Census ACS
Median income
$110,656
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
52%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
168
74,739 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jefferson County School District No. R-1
- Arvada West High SchoolHigh · 1,923 students
- Ralston Valley Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,875 students
- Chatfield High SchoolHigh · 1,808 students
- Lakewood High SchoolHigh · 1,735 students
- Columbine High SchoolHigh · 1,710 students
- Golden High SchoolHigh · 1,469 students
Other schools in WESTMINSTER
- Westminster High SchoolHigh · 2,010 students
- Academy of Charter SchoolsCombined · 1,887 students
- Mountain Range High SchoolHigh · 1,788 students
- Standley Lake High SchoolHigh · 1,123 students
- Colorado Preparatory Academy Elementary SchoolElementary · 933 students
- Colorado Preparatory Academy High SchoolHigh · 823 students
Other Adams Elementary schools
40 other US public schools in 20 states are named Adams Elementary. Adams Elementary School is the 25th largest of the 41.
- Adams Elementary SchoolCOLORADO SPRINGS, CO · 299 students
- ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLINCOLN, NE · 767 students
- Adams Elementary SchoolARLINGTON, TX · 743 students
- Adams Elementary SchoolMESA, AZ · 667 students
- Adams ElementaryCary, NC · 655 students
Nearby schools
- Mandalay Middle School0.5 mi · 443
- Semper Elementary School0.8 mi · 314
- Doral Academy of Colorado0.9 mi · 168
- Little Elementary School1.1 mi · 310
- Jefferson Academy Elementary1.2 mi · 737
- Summit Academy1.2 mi · 66
Frequently asked questions
About Adams Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Adams Elementary School?
Adams Elementary School enrolls approximately 310 students in grades PK-05.
Is Adams Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Adams Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Adams Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Adams Elementary School is approximately 18.2:1 (17 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Adams Elementary School?
Student demographics at Adams Elementary School are roughly 50% White, 35% Hispanic, 3% Black, 4% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Adams Elementary School in?
Adams Elementary School is part of Jefferson County School District No. R-1.
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