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Which teacher or staff member at Goodnight Elementary School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
534
Elementary
DISTRICT 324 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PUEBLO SCHOOL DISTRICT 60·NCES 080612001046
Goodnight Elementary School
624 WINDY WAY, PUEBLO, CO 81005 · (719) 549-7545 · Pueblo County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL534 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 65% 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.
- A-Beats 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
16.2:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
348 students
DISTRICT 79% · 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 | 15 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 59 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 52 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 50 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 51 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 16% larger than its 8th grade class (51).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · 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
40.1%
CO avg 44.9% . -1.9pp since 2023
Math
33.6%
CO avg 36.1% . -3.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.1% | 33.6% |
| 2023-24 | 42.0% | 37.0% |
% 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
37.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.2%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% 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 Goodnight Elementary School
Goodnight Elementary School's state test result (37.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goodnight Elementary School this school | 534 | 65.2% | 37.5% |
| Mary E Pennock Elementary School BRIGHTON | 592 | 59.8% | 31.0% |
| Nettie S Freed K-8 Expeditionary School PUEBLO | 425 | 69.2% | 28.3% |
| Meeker Elementary School GREELEY | 475 | 72.6% | 20.7% |
| Twombly Elementary School FORT LUPTON | 473 | 65.1% | 21.3% |
| Trailside Academy DENVER | 492 | 58.3% | 20.1% |
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 Goodnight Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Pueblo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.5% | #474 of 931 | #8 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.6% | #488 of 940 ▼ 55 | #8 of 33 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.1% | #506 of 946 ▼ 38 | #10 of 33 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 534 | #180 of 1,056 | #2 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.2:1 | #568 of 896 | #19 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.1% | #386 of 896 | #12 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.2% | #319 of 983 | #23 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.3% | #190 of 664 | #10 of 26 |
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
534
-37 (-6%) vs 2020
+30% since 1990-91, when it was 412
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 534 | 33 | 16.2:1 | 65% (348) |
| 2023-24 | 556 | 32.2 | 17.3:1 | 73% (408) |
| 2022-23 | 587 | 34.3 | 17.1:1 | 70% (408) |
| 2020-21 | 571 | 36 | 15.9:1 | 73% (415) |
| 2017-18 | 715 | 34.5 | 20.7:1 | 71% (507) |
| 2015-16 | 705 | 34 | 20.7:1 | 62% (440) |
| 2010-11 | 656 | 35 | 18.7:1 | 62% (404) |
| 2000-01 | 481 | 26 | 18.5:1 | 63% (301) |
| 1990-91 | 412 | 17 | 24.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Goodnight Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 25% (715 to 534); teachers down 4% (34.5 to 33).
About Goodnight Elementary School
Goodnight Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school that serves part of PUEBLO, Colorado. The school covers pre-K through 8 and reported 534 students in 2024-25. That puts enrollment 41% above the 379-student average for elementary schools in Colorado.
Pueblo School District 60 has 14,351 students in 34 schools, and Goodnight Elementary School is one of those schools.
The student body at Goodnight Elementary School is 62% Hispanic. The rest of enrollment is 31% White, 3% multiracial, and 2% Black. Among all residents of Pueblo County, the Hispanic share is about 42%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 52%.
For every teacher at Goodnight Elementary School, there are about 16.2 students; the school has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among elementary schools in Colorado is similar, at 16.6:1. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 65%. The figure for public schools in Pueblo County is close, at 66%.
Among Colorado public elementary schools, Goodnight Elementary School outscored 65%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Goodnight Elementary School would be expected to post about 27.2%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 37.5%.
In Pueblo County, median household income comes to about $64,010, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 26% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The county's public schools total 66, with about 32,254 students.
Sunset Park Elementary School is about 1.0 miles from Goodnight Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 7 closest schools with test data, this one included, Goodnight Elementary School ranks 1st on average proficiency.
The federal government classifies Goodnight Elementary School's location as City: Mid-size.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 534, from 571 in 2020-21.
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Pueblo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
169,356
Census ACS
Median income
$64,010
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
66
32,254 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pueblo School District 60
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,145 students
- East High SchoolHigh · 1,081 students
- Chavez/Huerta K-12 Preparatory AcademyCombined · 844 students
- Centennial High SchoolHigh · 801 students
- South High SchoolHigh · 795 students
- W H Heaton Middle SchoolMiddle · 578 students
Other schools in PUEBLO
- GOAL AcademyHigh · 6,693 students
- Pueblo County High SchoolHigh · 1,148 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,145 students
- East High SchoolHigh · 1,081 students
- Chavez/Huerta K-12 Preparatory AcademyCombined · 844 students
- Centennial High SchoolHigh · 801 students
Nearby schools
- Sunset Park Elementary School1.0 mi · 425
- Pueblo Academy of Arts1.1 mi · 562
- South High School1.5 mi · 795
- D60 Online School1.5 mi · 112
- Roncalli Stem Academy1.7 mi · 247
- Heritage Elementary School1.8 mi · 250
Frequently asked questions
About Goodnight Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Goodnight Elementary School?
Goodnight Elementary School enrolls approximately 534 students in grades PK-08.
Is Goodnight Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Goodnight Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Goodnight Elementary School have?
Goodnight Elementary School employs 33 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.2:1.
How diverse is Goodnight Elementary School?
Goodnight Elementary School reports a student body of 31% White, 62% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Goodnight Elementary School public or private?
Goodnight Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Pueblo School District 60.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.