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Enrollment
412
Elementary
DISTRICT 422 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ADAMS 12 FIVE STAR SCHOOLS·NCES 080690001174
Coronado Hills Elementary School
8300 DOWNING DRIVE, THORNTON, CO 80229 · (720) 972-5320 · Adams County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL412 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 10% of Colorado public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
14.7:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
335 students
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 | 45 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 54 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (54) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (64).
Student demographics
27%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
19.3%
CO avg 44.9% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
14.0%
CO avg 36.1% . +3.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 19.3% | 14.0% |
| 2023-24 | 11.3% | 10.9% |
% 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
15.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
17.4%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% 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 Coronado Hills Elementary School
Coronado Hills Elementary School's state test result (15.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coronado Hills Elementary School this school | 412 | 81.3% | 15.0% |
| Clayton Partnership School THORNTON | 430 | 77.7% | 20.9% |
| Martinez Elementary School GREELEY | 469 | 80.4% | 19.3% |
| Monterey Community School DENVER | 440 | 78.6% | 18.7% |
| Northeast Elementary School BRIGHTON | 470 | 78.7% | 15.6% |
| Doull Elementary School DENVER | 381 | 85.3% | 31.3% |
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 Coronado Hills Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Adams County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.0% | #857 of 931 | #70 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.0% | #828 of 940 ▲ 32 | #62 of 89 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.3% | #840 of 946 ▲ 76 | #69 of 89 ▲ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 412 | #404 of 1,056 | #54 of 97 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #326 of 896 | #15 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.3% | #834 of 896 | #74 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.3% | #140 of 983 | #31 of 91 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.2% | #157 of 664 | #14 of 63 |
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
412
-101 (-20%) vs 2020
-14% since 1990-91, when it was 477
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 412 | 28 | 14.7:1 | 81% (335) |
| 2023-24 | 433 | 28.5 | 15.2:1 | 87% (376) |
| 2022-23 | 443 | 30 | 14.8:1 | 84% (371) |
| 2020-21 | 513 | 32 | 16.0:1 | 80% (410) |
| 2017-18 | 566 | 32.5 | 17.4:1 | 80% (452) |
| 2015-16 | 527 | 31 | 17.0:1 | 86% (453) |
| 2010-11 | 538 | 34 | 15.8:1 | 89% (481) |
| 2000-01 | 516 | 32 | 16.1:1 | 52% (270) |
| 1990-91 | 477 | 34 | 14.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Coronado Hills Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (566 to 412); teachers down 14% (32.5 to 28).
About Coronado Hills Elementary School
Coronado Hills Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Adams 12 Five Star Schools, located in THORNTON, Colorado. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 412 students.
Adams 12 Five Star Schools has 34,466 students in 54 schools, and Coronado Hills Elementary School is one of those schools.
At Coronado Hills Elementary School, Hispanic students make up 85% of the student body. Smaller groups are 9% White and 2% multiracial. County-wide, 43% of Adams County residents are Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Coronado Hills Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 27%.
The school reports 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 14.7 students per teacher. For comparison, elementary schools in Colorado average 16.6:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 81% of students. Across public schools in Adams County, the average is 62%.
Coronado Hills Elementary School is graded D by allk12, scoring above 10% of Colorado public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
A school with Coronado Hills Elementary School's lunch-eligibility share in Colorado is predicted to score 17.4%. Coronado Hills Elementary School scores 15.0%, 2.4 points below that line.
County data help place the school in context: in Adams County, median household income is about $94,571, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 29%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Coronado Hills Elementary School is among the 171 public schools in Adams County.
The closest public school, McElwain Elementary School, is about 0.3 miles from Coronado Hills Elementary School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 17.0%; Coronado Hills Elementary School's is 15.0%, ranking 4th of 7.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 412, 20% below the 513 of 2020-21. Students per teacher fell from 16.0 in 2020-21 to 14.7 in 2024-25.
Parents and students can post about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at Coronado Hills Elementary School. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Adams County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
530,225
Census ACS
Median income
$94,571
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
171
87,938 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Adams 12 Five Star Schools
- Legacy High SchoolHigh · 2,052 students
- Horizon High SchoolHigh · 1,966 students
- Northglenn High SchoolHigh · 1,844 students
- Mountain Range High SchoolHigh · 1,788 students
- Stargate Charter SchoolCombined · 1,572 students
- Prospect Ridge AcademyCombined · 1,478 students
Other schools in THORNTON
- Riverdale Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,784 students
- Stargate Charter SchoolCombined · 1,572 students
- Thornton High SchoolHigh · 1,439 students
- Rocky Top Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,052 students
- Rodger Quist Middle SchoolMiddle · 855 students
- York InternationalCombined · 776 students
Nearby schools
- McElwain Elementary School0.3 mi · 361
- Monterey Community School0.5 mi · 440
- Welby Community School of the Arts0.8 mi · 308
- New America School - Thornton0.8 mi · 190
- Clayton Partnership School0.9 mi · 430
- Academy High School0.9 mi · 399
Frequently asked questions
About Coronado Hills Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Coronado Hills Elementary School?
Coronado Hills Elementary School enrolls approximately 412 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Coronado Hills Elementary School serve?
Coronado Hills Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Coronado Hills Elementary School?
Approximately 14.7:1 students per teacher at Coronado Hills Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Coronado Hills Elementary School?
At Coronado Hills Elementary School, the student body is approximately 9% White, 85% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Coronado Hills Elementary School in?
Coronado Hills Elementary School is part of Adams 12 Five Star Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.