Gateway Elementary School
This school has no state test results for 2023-24 or 2024-25 to grade, which is common for schools that end before third grade. How grades work
Enrollment by grade, 2023-24
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 50 | 24% |
| Kindergarten | 19 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 26 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 20 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 25 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 27 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 15 | 7% |
| Grade 6 | 25 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (19) is 24% smaller than its 6th grade class (25).
School pathway
Test scores
CMAS 2023-24 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsWhat this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 44 and 34.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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%.
Where Gateway Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.7% | #467 of 931 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.8% | #560 of 940 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.4% | #573 of 946 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 207 | #890 of 1,056 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #445 of 896 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.0% | #636 of 896 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.9% | #529 of 983 |
6-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2023-24Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | 207 | 18.1 | 11.4:1 | 45% (93) |
| 2022-23 | 293 | 19 | 15.4:1 | 35% (104) |
| 2020-21 | 305 | 23 | 13.3:1 | 32% (97) |
| 2017-18 | 373 | 19.8 | 18.8:1 | 37% (139) |
| 2015-16 | 344 | 21 | 16.4:1 | 38% (131) |
| 2010-11 | 408 | 26 | 15.7:1 | 32% (132) |
| 2000-01 | 470 | 25 | 18.8:1 | 14% (68) |
| 1990-91 | 554 | 30 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
Since 2017-18: students down 45% (373 to 207); teachers down 9% (19.8 to 18.1).
About Gateway Elementary School
Located in WOODLAND PARK, Colorado, Gateway Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school. Its grade span covers pre-K through 6, with 207 students on the rolls. Elementary schools in Colorado average about 379 students, which makes this school 45% below average.
Woodland Park School District No. Re-2 is the district for Gateway Elementary School. It has 6 schools and 1,951 students.
About 73% of the student body at Gateway Elementary School is White. Other groups include 19% Hispanic and 6% multiracial. By comparison, Teller County residents are about 86% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 42, compared with 70 nationally.
On staff are 18.1 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.4:1. Elementary schools in Colorado have an average ratio of 16.6:1. About 45% of students at Gateway Elementary School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Teller County average a similar 42%.
Gateway Elementary School scores 37.7% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 39.5%.
In the surrounding county, Teller County, the median household earns about $85,361 a year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Gateway Elementary School, Teller County has 8 public schools.
Woodland Park High School sits less than a tenth of a mile from Gateway Elementary School. There are 4 other public schools within five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Gateway Elementary School ranks 8th on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Town: Fringe: the school is in a town close to an urbanized area.
Enrollment records show 373 in 2017-18 and 207 in 2023-24. Because schools sometimes add or drop grades, the two numbers may not be directly comparable. The percentage of Hispanic students increased from 11% to 19% between 2017-18 and 2023-24. There were fewer students per teacher in 2023-24 (11.4:1) than in 2017-18 (18.8:1).
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