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Enrollment
492
Elementary
DISTRICT 356 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ADAMS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 14·NCES 080195000011
Alsup Elementary School
4413 E. 68TH AVE, COMMERCE CITY, CO 80022 · (303) 853-3333 · Adams County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL492 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 14% of Colorado public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
16.2:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
420 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 | 36 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 60 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 55 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 60 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (60).
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 20% · 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
18.7%
CO avg 44.9% . +0.8pp since 2023
Math
10.1%
CO avg 36.1% . -3.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.7% | 10.1% |
| 2023-24 | 17.9% | 13.5% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
14.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
15.0%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 15% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Alsup Elementary School
Alsup Elementary School's state test result (14.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alsup Elementary School this school | 492 | 85.4% | 14.8% |
| Sunset Ridge PK-8 WESTMINSTER | 449 | 87.8% | 19.3% |
| Dupont Elementary School COMMERCE CITY | 488 | 87.1% | 13.5% |
| Monaco Elementary School COMMERCE CITY | 434 | 87.1% | 12.7% |
| Orchard Park Academy DENVER | 531 | 89.1% | 16.9% |
| Kemp Elementary School COMMERCE CITY | 517 | 88.6% | 19.3% |
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 Alsup Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Adams County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.8% | #860 of 931 | #72 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.1% | #885 of 940 ▼ 63 | #73 of 89 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.7% | #847 of 946 ▼ 6 | #70 of 89 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 492 | #249 of 1,056 | #29 of 97 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.2:1 | #563 of 896 | #37 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.0% | #852 of 896 | #77 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.4% | #91 of 983 | #26 of 91 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.2% | #562 of 664 | #49 of 63 |
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
492
+127 (+35%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 644
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 492 | 30.4 | 16.2:1 | 85% (420) |
| 2023-24 | 449 | 33.3 | 13.5:1 | 86% (387) |
| 2022-23 | 463 | 31.2 | 14.8:1 | 77% (355) |
| 2020-21 | 365 | 23 | 15.9:1 | 80% (291) |
| 2017-18 | 519 | 29.5 | 17.6:1 | 87% (454) |
| 2015-16 | 545 | 30 | 18.2:1 | 88% (477) |
| 2010-11 | 640 | 33 | 19.4:1 | 86% (549) |
| 2000-01 | 453 | 27 | 16.8:1 | 60% (274) |
| 1990-91 | 644 | 21 | 30.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Alsup Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (519 to 492); teachers up 3% (29.5 to 30.4).
About Alsup Elementary School
Alsup Elementary School is a public elementary school run by Adams County School District 14 in COMMERCE CITY, Colorado. It teaches 492 students in pre-K through 6. By comparison, elementary schools in Colorado enroll about 379 students on average.
The district for Alsup Elementary School is Adams County School District 14, with 12 schools and 5,221 students.
Alsup Elementary School is 86% Hispanic by enrollment. The next largest groups are 10% White and 2% multiracial. In Adams County overall, about 43% of residents are Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 25%.
Alsup Elementary School lists 30.4 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 16.2 students per teacher. That is in line with the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. About 85% of students at Alsup Elementary School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 62% average for public schools in Adams County is 23 points lower.
On the allk12 Grade, Alsup Elementary School lands at D, ahead of 14% of Colorado public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Alsup Elementary School is -0.1 points: 14.8% actual, 15.0% predicted.
In Adams County, home to about 530,225 people, median household income comes to about $94,571, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 29%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. There are 171 public schools in the county, enrolling about 87,938, Alsup Elementary School among them.
Adams City Middle School is the nearest public school to Alsup Elementary School, about 0.5 miles away. Within five miles of Alsup Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 14.8% is above the 12.1% average for nearby schools.
The school's locale code, City: Small, means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment figures show a increase of 127 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Adams County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
530,225
Census ACS
Median income
$94,571
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
171
87,938 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Adams County School District 14
- Adams City High SchoolHigh · 1,500 students
- Kemp Elementary SchoolElementary · 517 students
- Dupont Elementary SchoolElementary · 488 students
- Monaco Elementary SchoolElementary · 434 students
- Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 421 students
- Kearney Middle SchoolMiddle · 397 students
Other schools in COMMERCE CITY
- Adams City High SchoolHigh · 1,500 students
- Otho E Stuart Middle SchoolMiddle · 794 students
- Landmark Academy at ReunionElementary · 758 students
- Reunion Elementary SchoolElementary · 742 students
- Turnberry ElementaryElementary · 742 students
- Second Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 697 students
Nearby schools
- Adams City Middle School0.5 mi · 296
- Community Leadership Academy0.8 mi · 316
- Central Elementary School0.9 mi · 421
- Mildred L Sanville Preschool1.0 mi · 33
- University Prep - Commerce City1.1 mi · 24
- Kearney Middle School1.3 mi · 397
Frequently asked questions
About Alsup Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Alsup Elementary School?
Alsup Elementary School enrolls approximately 492 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Alsup Elementary School serve?
Alsup Elementary School serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Alsup Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Alsup Elementary School is approximately 16.2:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Alsup Elementary School?
Student demographics at Alsup Elementary School are roughly 10% White, 86% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Alsup Elementary School public or private?
Alsup Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Adams County School District 14.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.