Fred Tjardes School of Innovation

Set in GREELEY, Colorado, Fred Tjardes School of Innovation is an one-room-style K-5 school, overseen by GreeleySchool District No. 6 in the county of Weld and Sta. It hosts 124 students across grades K through 8. That puts it 67% smaller than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

GreeleySchool District No. 6 in the county of Weld and Sta runs 34 schools in total, collectively educating 22,917 students. Fred Tjardes School of Innovation is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Fred Tjardes School of Innovation lists that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 40% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 73%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 77.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Fred Tjardes School of Innovation higher than the state norm the norm. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fred Tjardes School of Innovation falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 40.3%; this one comes in at 23.0%, -17.3 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Weld County put the typical household earns roughly $97,097 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Weld County's 116 public schools (combined enrollment of about 61,274 students), Fred Tjardes School of Innovation is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Greeley Central High School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fred Tjardes School of Innovation ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 15.7%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 4%: 119 students in 2018 compared to 124 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged down from 45% to 40% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 77.5:1 in 2025.

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