Dupont Elementary School

Set in COMMERCE CITY, Colorado, Dupont Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary campus, part of School District N. 14 in the county of Adams & State of Colo. It serves 488 students across grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 29% above the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

School District N. 14 in the county of Adams & State of Colo runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 5,221 students. Dupont Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Dupont Elementary School logs that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 7% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Adams County (around 62%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dupont Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 13.9%; this one delivers 13.5%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Adams County put median household income runs about $94,571, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Adams County runs 171 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students), of which Dupont Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Monaco Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Dupont Elementary School at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 13.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 15%: 576 students in 2018 compared to 488 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 86% to 91% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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