Clifton Elementary School

Located at 3276 F ROAD, in CLIFTON, Colorado, Clifton Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary-level community that hosts 346 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Mesa County Valley School District No. 51.

Within Mesa County Valley School District No. 51, which oversees 45 schools and 20,344 students, Clifton Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Clifton Elementary School lists that White students make up the majority at 60%; the rest looks like 37% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Mesa County's rate of about 53%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Clifton Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.0%, the actual is 14.6%, a residual of -6.4 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Mesa County indicate median household income runs about $73,658, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Mesa County runs 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,232 students), of which Clifton Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Grand Mesa Middle School, roughly 1.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Clifton Elementary School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 25.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clifton Elementary School has contracted 24%, going from 456 students in 2018 to 346 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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