Enrollment
247
Elementary
DISTRICT 328 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·THOMPSON SCHOOL DISTRICT R-2J·NCES 080540001352
Carrie Martin Elementary School
4129 JONI LANE, LOVELAND, CO 80537 · (970) 613-5700 · Larimer County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL247 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 65% 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.
- 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
15.7:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
80 students
DISTRICT 37% · 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 | 28 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 32 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 33 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 36 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 35 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (32) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (35).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · 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
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CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
46.6%
CO avg 44.9% . -11.4pp since 2023
Math
44.7%
CO avg 36.1% . -13.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 13 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.6% | 44.7% |
| 2023-24 | 58.0% | 58.0% |
% 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
50.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.1%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 Carrie Martin Elementary School
Carrie Martin Elementary School's state test result (50.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrie Martin Elementary School this school | 247 | 32.4% | 50.0% |
| Palmer Lake Elementary School PALMER LAKE | 286 | 34.3% | 53.3% |
| Dutch Creek Elementary School LITTLETON | 286 | 35.0% | 43.3% |
| Telluride Intermediate School TELLURIDE | 237 | 30.4% | 53.6% |
| Mortensen Elementary School LITTLETON | 260 | 36.9% | 41.9% |
| Mount View Core Knowledge Charter School CANON CITY | 250 | 34.0% | 46.1% |
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 Carrie Martin Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Larimer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #296 of 931 | #23 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.7% | #345 of 940 ▼ 202 | #29 of 53 ▼ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.6% | #417 of 946 ▼ 173 | #34 of 53 ▼ 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 247 | #839 of 1,056 | #43 of 56 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #496 of 896 | #36 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.6% | #553 of 896 | #28 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.4% | #675 of 983 | #33 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.6% | #639 of 664 | #40 of 41 |
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
247
+32 (+15%) vs 2020
-40% since 1990-91, when it was 414
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 247 | 15.7 | 15.7:1 | 32% (80) |
| 2023-24 | 252 | 14.5 | 17.4:1 | 42% (107) |
| 2022-23 | 243 | 15.8 | 15.4:1 | 30% (73) |
| 2020-21 | 215 | 16 | 13.4:1 | 29% (63) |
| 2017-18 | 251 | 14.8 | 16.9:1 | 48% (120) |
| 2015-16 | 240 | 14 | 17.1:1 | 39% (94) |
| 2010-11 | 304 | 19 | 16.0:1 | 29% (87) |
| 2000-01 | 261 | 16 | 16.3:1 | 19% (49) |
| 1990-91 | 414 | 22 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Carrie Martin Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (251 to 247); teachers up 6% (14.8 to 15.7).
About Carrie Martin Elementary School
In LOVELAND, Colorado, part of Larimer County, Carrie Martin Elementary School is an elementary school. In all, 247 students attend the school in pre-K through 5. The school is 35% below the average for elementary schools in Colorado.
Thompson School District R-2J runs Carrie Martin Elementary School along with 31 other schools, enrolling 14,580 students in total.
The largest group at Carrie Martin Elementary School is White students, at 70%. Other students are 21% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. By comparison, Larimer County residents are about 82% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Carrie Martin Elementary School scores 46%.
Its staff includes 15.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 15.7 students per teacher. The gap from the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado is 0.8 students per teacher. Roughly 32% of students at Carrie Martin Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Larimer County is close, at 35%.
Carrie Martin Elementary School earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 65% of Colorado public elementary schools.
Carrie Martin Elementary School is 2.9 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (50.0% versus 47.1%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Colorado.
In Larimer County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $93,765, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 53%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. The county has 94 public schools and about 47,159 students.
B F Kitchen Elementary School is the nearest public school to Carrie Martin Elementary School, about 1.7 miles away. Within five miles of Carrie Martin Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 50.0% is above the 38.6% average for nearby schools.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment rose by 32 students, from 215 to 247. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 15.7:1, from 13.4:1.
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Larimer County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
367,368
Census ACS
Median income
$93,765
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
94
47,159 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Thompson School District R-2J
- Loveland High SchoolHigh · 1,354 students
- Mountain View High SchoolHigh · 1,074 students
- Loveland Classical SchoolCombined · 1,032 students
- New Vision Charter SchoolElementary · 1,005 students
- Thompson Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,005 students
- Riverview PK-8Elementary · 757 students
Other schools in LOVELAND
- Loveland High SchoolHigh · 1,354 students
- Mountain View High SchoolHigh · 1,074 students
- Loveland Classical SchoolCombined · 1,032 students
- New Vision Charter SchoolElementary · 1,005 students
- Thompson Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,005 students
- Lucile Erwin Middle SchoolMiddle · 686 students
Nearby schools
- B F Kitchen Elementary School1.7 mi · 159
- Walt Clark Middle School2.4 mi · 340
- Sarah Milner Elementary School2.4 mi · 264
- Loveland Classical School2.6 mi · 1,032
- Thompson Valley High School2.6 mi · 1,005
- Berthoud Elementary School2.7 mi · 495
Frequently asked questions
About Carrie Martin Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Carrie Martin Elementary School?
Carrie Martin Elementary School enrolls approximately 247 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Carrie Martin Elementary School serve?
Carrie Martin Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Carrie Martin Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Carrie Martin Elementary School is approximately 15.7:1 (16 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Carrie Martin Elementary School?
Student demographics at Carrie Martin Elementary School are roughly 70% White, 21% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Carrie Martin Elementary School?
Carrie Martin Elementary School is overseen by Thompson School District R-2J in Larimer County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.