Cherry Drive Elementary School

Located at 11500 CHERRY DRIVE, in THORNTON, Colorado, Cherry Drive Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school that serves 325 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Adams 12 Five Star Schools.

Adams 12 Five Star Schools comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 34,466 students; Cherry Drive Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Cherry Drive Elementary School shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 59%. Beyond that, the school reports 30% White, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

On the income-and-resources front, Cherry Drive Elementary School reports 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 60% of students at Cherry Drive Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Cherry Drive Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.5%; this one delivers 26.3%.

In the broader community, census data for Adams County shows median household income runs about $94,571, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cherry Drive Elementary School is one of 171 public schools in Adams County (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students).

Riverdale Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Cherry Drive Elementary School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.6%.

Cherry Drive Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cherry Drive Elementary School has ticked down 5%, going from 341 students in 2018 to 325 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 55% to 30% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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