Carrie Martin Elementary School

Carrie Martin Elementary School is an elementary-level community of small scale in LOVELAND, Colorado, one of the schools within Thompson School District R-2J, instructing 247 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 35% smaller than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Carrie Martin Elementary School is one of 32 schools operated by Thompson School District R-2J, a district that enrolls 14,580 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Carrie Martin Elementary School shows that White students make up the majority at 70%. Beyond that, the school records 21% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Carrie Martin Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.1%, the actual is 50.0%, a residual of +2.9 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Larimer County indicate the typical household earns roughly $93,765 per year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Larimer County runs 94 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,159 students), of which Carrie Martin Elementary School is one.

B F Kitchen Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Carrie Martin Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Carrie Martin Elementary School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 38.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Carrie Martin Elementary School has stayed largely flat, going from 251 students in 2018 to 247 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 82% to 70%. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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