Elaine S. Padilla Elementary School

Elaine S. Padilla Elementary School is a K-5 school of large scale in BRIGHTON, Colorado, run under School District 27J, instructing 672 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 379 students per school, that is 77% above typical.

Elaine S. Padilla Elementary School is one of 33 schools operated by School District 27J, a district that teaches 24,044 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Elaine S. Padilla Elementary School lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 62%. The remainder reads as 32% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Adams County as a whole is about 43% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.1:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Adams County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Elaine S. Padilla Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.5%; this one delivers 32.9%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Adams County) logs that median household income runs about $94,571, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Adams County's 171 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students), Elaine S. Padilla Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Bromley East Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Elaine S. Padilla Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Elaine S. Padilla Elementary School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 26.0%.

Elaine S. Padilla Elementary School operates from a residential location.

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