Enrollment
133
Elementary
DISTRICT 182 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAMAR SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. RE-2·NCES 080522000860
Alta Vista Charter School
8785 CR LL, LAMAR, CO 81052 · (719) 336-2154 · Prowers County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY41-RURALCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL133 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 80% of Colorado public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
14.1:1
9 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 24.5:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
59 students
DISTRICT 71% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 20 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 20 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 20 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 20 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 17 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 19 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 17 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (20) is 18% larger than its 6th grade class (17).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · 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
52.7%
CO avg 44.9% . -5.4pp since 2023
Math
41.9%
CO avg 36.1% . +4.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.7% | 41.9% |
| 2023-24 | 58.1% | 37.8% |
% 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
52.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.8%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 Alta Vista Charter School
Alta Vista Charter School's state test result (52.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alta Vista Charter School this school | 133 | 44.4% | 52.7% |
| Sargent Elementary School MONTE VISTA | 142 | 49.3% | 36.0% |
| B F Kitchen Elementary School LOVELAND | 159 | 46.5% | 28.8% |
| McClave Elementary School MC CLAVE | 126 | 42.1% | 56.6% |
| Sunnyside Elementary School DURANGO | 107 | 50.5% | 25.9% |
| Carbondale Community Charter School CARBONDALE | 143 | 37.1% | 54.1% |
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 Alta Vista Charter School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.7% | #254 of 931 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.9% | #388 of 940 ▲ 30 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.7% | #321 of 946 ▼ 79 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 133 | #965 of 1,056 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.4% | #537 of 983 |
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
133
+2 (+2%) vs 2020
+99% since 1990-91, when it was 67
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 133 | 9.5 | 14.1:1 | 44% (59) |
| 2023-24 | 135 | 9.5 | 14.2:1 | 44% (60) |
| 2022-23 | 131 | 9.5 | 13.8:1 | 35% (46) |
| 2020-21 | 131 | 9 | 14.6:1 | 34% (44) |
| 2017-18 | 133 | 9 | 14.7:1 | 38% (50) |
| 2015-16 | 122 | 9 | 13.6:1 | 31% (38) |
| 2010-11 | 126 | 9 | 14.0:1 | 38% (48) |
| 2000-01 | 89 | 5 | 17.8:1 | 30% (27) |
| 1990-91 | 67 | 3 | 22.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Alta Vista Charter School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (133 to 133); teachers up 5% (9 to 9.5).
About Alta Vista Charter School
Alta Vista Charter School operates as a very small elementary school in LAMAR, Colorado. It reported 133 students in kindergarten through 6 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in Colorado have about 379 students on average; enrollment here is 65% lower.
Lamar School District No. Re-2 has 6 schools and 1,397 students, and Alta Vista Charter School is one of those schools.
White students are 60% of those enrolled at Alta Vista Charter School. Next come 35% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 51%.
Alta Vista Charter School has 9.5 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.1:1. The school's 14.1:1 compares with an average of 16.6:1 for elementary schools in Colorado. The school has 44% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 69% average for public schools in Prowers County is 25 points higher.
Among Colorado public elementary schools, Alta Vista Charter School outscored 80%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Alta Vista Charter School's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 52.7% is 12.9 points above the 39.8% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
For the population of Prowers County, median household income comes to about $53,508, roughly 19% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Prowers County counts 11 public schools with about 2,153 students.
A public school about 3.3 miles away, Lamar Middle School, is the closest to Alta Vista Charter School. In all, 5 other public schools sit within five miles of Alta Vista Charter School. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Alta Vista Charter School is 2nd of 7 on proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes Alta Vista Charter School as Rural: Fringe. This is a charter school, which is a tuition-free public school operating under a charter.
Federal data show 131 students in 2020-21 and 133 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%.
This page is set up for the Alta Vista Charter School community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Prowers County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
11,910
Census ACS
Median income
$53,508
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
11
2,153 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lamar School District No. Re-2
- Lamar High SchoolHigh · 393 students
- Lamar Middle SchoolMiddle · 275 students
- Parkview Elementary SchoolElementary · 252 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 222 students
- Melvin Hendrickson Development CenterElementary · 122 students
Other schools in LAMAR
- Lamar High SchoolHigh · 393 students
- Lamar Middle SchoolMiddle · 275 students
- Parkview Elementary SchoolElementary · 252 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 222 students
- Melvin Hendrickson Development CenterElementary · 122 students
Nearby schools
- Lamar Middle School3.3 mi · 275
- Washington Elementary School3.4 mi · 222
- Parkview Elementary School3.5 mi · 252
- Melvin Hendrickson Development Center4.2 mi · 122
- Lamar High School4.3 mi · 393
- Wiley Elementary School6.8 mi · 155
Frequently asked questions
About Alta Vista Charter SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Alta Vista Charter School?
Alta Vista Charter School enrolls approximately 133 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Alta Vista Charter School serve?
Alta Vista Charter School serves grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Alta Vista Charter School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Alta Vista Charter School is approximately 14.1:1 (9 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Alta Vista Charter School?
Alta Vista Charter School reports a student body of 60% White, 35% Hispanic, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Alta Vista Charter School?
Alta Vista Charter School is overseen by Lamar School District No. Re-2 in Prowers County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.