Enrollment
252
Elementary
DISTRICT 324 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PUEBLO SCHOOL DISTRICT 60·NCES 080612001033
Bradford Elementary School
107 SOUTH LA CROSSE AVENUE, PUEBLO, CO 81001 · (719) 549-7515 · Pueblo County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL252 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 24% 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.
- B-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
13.3:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
225 students
DISTRICT 79% · 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 | 65 | 26% |
| Kindergarten | 34 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 21 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 35 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 30 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 33 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 34 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (34).
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · 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
11.4%
CO avg 44.9% . -5.9pp since 2023
Math
5.6%
CO avg 36.1% . -4.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 11 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 6 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 11.4% | 5.6% |
| 2023-24 | 17.3% | 9.8% |
% 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
15.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
12.6%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 13% 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 Bradford Elementary School
Bradford Elementary School's state test result (15.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bradford Elementary School this school | 252 | 89.3% | 15.6% |
| Eva R Baca Elementary School PUEBLO | 250 | 91.2% | 20.6% |
| Beach Court Elementary School DENVER | 275 | 89.5% | 22.4% |
| Park View Elementary School PUEBLO | 285 | 91.9% | 16.1% |
| Minnequa Elementary School PUEBLO | 277 | 84.8% | 42.1% |
| Columbine Elementary School LONGMONT | 231 | 89.2% | 24.7% |
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 Bradford Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Pueblo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.6% | #848 of 931 | #29 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 5.6% | #930 of 940 ▼ 48 | #33 of 33 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 11.4% | #921 of 946 ▼ 67 | #33 of 33 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 252 | #827 of 1,056 | #28 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #145 of 896 | #4 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.1% | #771 of 896 | #31 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.3% | #39 of 983 | #3 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -37.9% | #39 of 664 | #2 of 26 |
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
252
-78 (-24%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 311
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 252 | 19 | 13.3:1 | 89% (225) |
| 2023-24 | 280 | 19.3 | 14.5:1 | 93% (261) |
| 2022-23 | 301 | 21 | 14.3:1 | 90% (271) |
| 2020-21 | 330 | 24 | 13.8:1 | 90% (298) |
| 2017-18 | 406 | 25.5 | 15.9:1 | 89% (363) |
| 2015-16 | 427 | 27 | 15.8:1 | 89% (378) |
| 2010-11 | 344 | 26 | 13.2:1 | 91% (313) |
| 2000-01 | 397 | 27 | 14.7:1 | 86% (341) |
| 1990-91 | 311 | 17 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bradford Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 38% (406 to 252); teachers down 25% (25.5 to 19).
About Bradford Elementary School
Bradford Elementary School is an elementary school with a street address in PUEBLO, Colorado. It enrolled 252 students in pre-K through 5 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 34% lower than the average for elementary schools in Colorado, which is about 379.
Pueblo School District 60, which runs Bradford Elementary School, has 34 schools and 14,351 students.
Hispanic students make up 80% of enrollment at Bradford Elementary School. The next largest groups are 16% White and 2% Black. In Pueblo County overall, about 42% of residents are Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 33% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Its 19 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 13.3:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. The school's lunch program data list 89% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in Pueblo County report 66%.
The allk12 Grade for Bradford Elementary School is C-. Compared with Colorado public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 24% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Compared with Colorado schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Bradford Elementary School's results are 3.1 points above predicted: 15.6% against 12.6%.
Within Pueblo County, the median household income is $64,010, about 26% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. In all, Pueblo County has 66 public schools and roughly 32,254 students.
The closest public school, Risley International Academy of Innovation, is about 0.4 miles from Bradford Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Bradford Elementary School places 5th out of 7 schools in its immediate area.
The NCES locale for Bradford Elementary School is City: Mid-size, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Federal data show a 24% enrollment decrease, from 330 in 2020-21 to 252 in 2024-25.
Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at Bradford Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Pueblo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
169,356
Census ACS
Median income
$64,010
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
66
32,254 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pueblo School District 60
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,145 students
- East High SchoolHigh · 1,081 students
- Chavez/Huerta K-12 Preparatory AcademyCombined · 844 students
- Centennial High SchoolHigh · 801 students
- South High SchoolHigh · 795 students
- W H Heaton Middle SchoolMiddle · 578 students
Other schools in PUEBLO
- GOAL AcademyHigh · 6,693 students
- Pueblo County High SchoolHigh · 1,148 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,145 students
- East High SchoolHigh · 1,081 students
- Chavez/Huerta K-12 Preparatory AcademyCombined · 844 students
- Centennial High SchoolHigh · 801 students
Other Bradford Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 9 states are named Bradford Elementary. Bradford Elementary School is the 8th largest of the 10.
- BRADFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSTARKE, FL · 745 students
- Bradford Elementary SchoolSAN ANGELO, TX · 453 students
- Bradford Elementary SchoolIOWA PARK, TX · 450 students
- Bradford ElementaryBradford, MA · 443 students
- Bradford Elementary SchoolUPPER MONTCLAIR, NJ · 388 students
Nearby schools
- Risley International Academy of Innovation0.4 mi · 335
- Park View Elementary School0.6 mi · 285
- Fountain International Magnet School0.7 mi · 276
- The Connect Charter School1.0 mi · 252
- GOAL Academy1.5 mi · 6,693
- Franklin School of Innovation1.6 mi · 346
Frequently asked questions
About Bradford Elementary SchoolHow large is Bradford Elementary School?
Bradford Elementary School enrolls approximately 252 students in grades PK-05.
Is Bradford Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bradford Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bradford Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bradford Elementary School is approximately 13.3:1 (19 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Bradford Elementary School?
At Bradford Elementary School, the student body is approximately 16% White, 80% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Two or more.
Is Bradford Elementary School public or private?
Bradford Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Pueblo School District 60.
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