Dos Rios Elementary School

Dos Rios Elementary School, a cozy elementary-level community in GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado, overseen by Mesa County Valley School District No. 51, educates 293 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 379 students per school, that is 23% leaner than typical.

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

On demographics, Dos Rios Elementary School lists that White students make up the majority at 65%; the rest breaks down as 32% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Mesa County (around 53%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Dos Rios Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.5%, the actual is 26.9%, a residual of +8.4 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Mesa County indicate the typical household earns roughly $73,658 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Mesa County runs 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,232 students), of which Dos Rios Elementary School is one.

New Emerson School at Columbus is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dos Rios Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Dos Rios Elementary School comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 15%: 345 students in 2018 compared to 293 in 2025.

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