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Enrollment
725
Elementary
DISTRICT 467 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. VRAIN VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. RE1J·NCES 080537001890
Flagstaff Charter Academy
2040 MILLER DRIVE, LONGMONT, CO 80501 · (303) 651-7900 · Boulder County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBCHARTERREGULAR SCHOOL725 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 58% of Colorado public elementary schools
- B+Test 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
13.2:1
55 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
141 students
DISTRICT 39% · 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 | 49 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 56 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 86 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 90 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 87 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 36% smaller than its 8th grade class (87).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
59.6%
CO avg 44.9% . +1.8pp since 2023
Math
51.5%
CO avg 36.1% . +7.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.6% | 51.5% |
| 2023-24 | 57.8% | 43.7% |
% 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
52.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.9%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 Flagstaff Charter Academy
Flagstaff Charter Academy's state test result (52.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flagstaff Charter Academy this school | 725 | 19.4% | 52.2% |
| Black Rock Elementary ERIE | 597 | 19.3% | 61.4% |
| Prairie Crossing Elementary School PARKER | 612 | 16.3% | 64.1% |
| Chinook Trail Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 632 | 16.9% | 64.3% |
| Silver Creek Elementary THORNTON | 538 | 19.7% | 57.4% |
| Highlands Elementary School ERIE | 528 | 15.3% | 65.0% |
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 Flagstaff Charter Academy ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Boulder County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.2% | #261 of 931 | #29 of 46 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.5% | #251 of 940 ▲ 79 | #29 of 48 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.6% | #220 of 946 ▲ 26 | #26 of 48 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 725 | #57 of 1,056 | #3 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #133 of 896 | #7 of 47 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.6% | #369 of 896 | #10 of 47 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.4% | #839 of 983 | #30 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.9% | #263 of 664 | #21 of 44 |
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
725
-81 (-10%) vs 2020
-11% since 2010-11, when it was 815
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 12.2:1
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 | 725 | 55.1 | 13.2:1 | 19% (141) |
| 2023-24 | 775 | 59.1 | 13.1:1 | 18% (143) |
| 2022-23 | 772 | 60.9 | 12.7:1 | 16% (125) |
| 2020-21 | 806 | 66 | 12.2:1 | 14% (111) |
| 2017-18 | 916 | 68.2 | 13.4:1 | 12% (113) |
| 2015-16 | 891 | 55 | 16.2:1 | 9% (83) |
| 2010-11 | 815 | 54 | 15.1:1 | 5% (44) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Flagstaff Charter Academy.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (916 to 725); teachers down 19% (68.2 to 55.1).
About Flagstaff Charter Academy
Flagstaff Charter Academy is a large elementary school in LONGMONT, Colorado, one of the schools in St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J. Grades offered run from pre-K through 8, with 725 students enrolled. For comparison, elementary schools in Colorado average about 379 students.
In St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J, 54 schools enroll a combined 31,607 students.
At Flagstaff Charter Academy, White students make up 66% of the student body. Next come 17% Hispanic, 9% Asian, and 8% multiracial. The county population is about 78% White. The school's diversity index is 53%, meaning two students picked at random have a 53% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Teachers at Flagstaff Charter Academy total 55.1 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 13.2:1. That is 3.4 students per teacher below the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 19%. Among public schools in Boulder County, the average eligibility rate is 33%.
Flagstaff Charter Academy is graded B by allk12, scoring above 58% of Colorado public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Flagstaff Charter Academy falls in the middle 80% of Colorado schools: 52.2% actual against 54.9% predicted.
Boulder County census figures show that the median household income is $103,994, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. There are 86 public schools in Boulder County, enrolling about 42,200 students in all.
Nearby, Sunset Middle School is about 0.4 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Local comparison: Flagstaff Charter Academy ranks 1st of 6 nearby schools, at 52.2% versus a 38.3% average.
The NCES locale for Flagstaff Charter Academy is Suburb: Mid-size, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000. Flagstaff Charter Academy is a charter school, a type of public school that operates under a charter.
2024-25 enrollment was 725, a 10% decrease from 806 in 2020-21.
Conversations here can range across enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Boulder County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
328,961
Census ACS
Median income
$103,994
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
64%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
86
42,200 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J
- Erie High SchoolHigh · 1,727 students
- Niwot High SchoolHigh · 1,509 students
- Frederick Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,491 students
- Longmont High SchoolHigh · 1,268 students
- Soaring Heights PK-8Elementary · 1,211 students
- Silver Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,208 students
Other schools in LONGMONT
- Longmont High SchoolHigh · 1,268 students
- Silver Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,208 students
- Mead High SchoolHigh · 1,174 students
- Skyline High SchoolHigh · 1,082 students
- Twin Peaks Classical AcademyCombined · 879 students
- Timberline PK-8Elementary · 762 students
Nearby schools
- Sunset Middle School0.4 mi · 316
- Indian Peaks Elementary School0.5 mi · 214
- New Meridian High School0.5 mi · 95
- St. Vrain Virtual High School0.5 mi · 69
- Twin Peaks Classical Academy1.1 mi · 879
- Burlington Elementary School1.1 mi · 320
Frequently asked questions
About Flagstaff Charter AcademyWhat is the total enrollment at Flagstaff Charter Academy?
Flagstaff Charter Academy enrolls approximately 725 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Flagstaff Charter Academy serve?
Flagstaff Charter Academy serves grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at Flagstaff Charter Academy?
Approximately 13.2:1 students per teacher at Flagstaff Charter Academy.
What is the student diversity at Flagstaff Charter Academy?
Student demographics at Flagstaff Charter Academy are roughly 66% White, 17% Hispanic, 1% Black, 9% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Flagstaff Charter Academy?
Flagstaff Charter Academy is overseen by St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J in Boulder County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.