Brantner Elementary School

Brantner Elementary School is a primary school of large scale in THORNTON, Colorado, part of School District 27J, enrolling 574 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 379 students per school, that is 51% bigger than typical.

School District 27J comprises 33 schools with combined enrollment of 24,044 students; Brantner Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Brantner Elementary School logs that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 38% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Brantner Elementary School has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.5:1. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Adams County (around 62%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Brantner Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.9%, the actual is 40.1%, a residual of -1.8 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Adams County indicate the typical household earns roughly $94,571 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Brantner Elementary School is one of 171 public schools in Adams County (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students).

Nearest neighbor: Rodger Quist Middle School, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Brantner Elementary School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 29.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brantner Elementary School has stayed largely flat, going from 575 students in 2018 to 574 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 64% to 47% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 27.6:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Brantner Elementary School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.