Enrollment
276
Elementary
DISTRICT 324 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PUEBLO SCHOOL DISTRICT 60·NCES 080612001048
Highland Park Elementary School
2701 VINEWOOD LANE, PUEBLO, CO 81005 · (719) 549-7560 · Pueblo County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL276 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of Colorado public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
15.3:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
208 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 | 29 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 47 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 37 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 38 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 41 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 15% larger than its 5th grade class (41).
Student demographics
39%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
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CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
15.6%
CO avg 44.9% . +0.3pp since 2023
Math
12.0%
CO avg 36.1% . -6.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 15.6% | 12.0% |
| 2023-24 | 15.3% | 18.2% |
% 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
14.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
21.0%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% 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 Highland Park Elementary School
Highland Park Elementary School's state test result (14.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highland Park Elementary School this school | 276 | 75.4% | 14.3% |
| La Junta Primary School LA JUNTA | 296 | 76.4% | N/A |
| Bill Metz Elementary School MONTE VISTA | 253 | 75.9% | 24.4% |
| Pueblo School for Arts & Sciences at Fulton Heights PUEBLO | 221 | 74.2% | 21.7% |
| Mountain View Elementary School LONGMONT | 321 | 76.6% | 21.1% |
| Welby Community School of the Arts DENVER | 308 | 72.7% | 27.1% |
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 Highland Park Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Pueblo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.3% | #874 of 931 | #32 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.0% | #863 of 940 ▼ 120 | #30 of 33 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 15.6% | #885 of 946 ▼ 9 | #29 of 33 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 276 | #774 of 1,056 | #24 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #431 of 896 | #11 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 38.9% | #697 of 896 | #28 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.4% | #212 of 983 | #17 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -47.3% | #12 of 664 | #1 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
276
-142 (-34%) vs 2020
-54% since 1990-91, when it was 596
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 15.5:1
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 | 276 | 18 | 15.3:1 | 75% (208) |
| 2023-24 | 301 | 18.9 | 15.9:1 | 86% (258) |
| 2022-23 | 340 | 22.2 | 15.3:1 | 84% (284) |
| 2020-21 | 418 | 27 | 15.5:1 | 79% (329) |
| 2017-18 | 524 | 30.8 | 17.0:1 | 78% (408) |
| 2015-16 | 626 | 30 | 20.9:1 | 70% (441) |
| 2010-11 | 495 | 25 | 19.8:1 | 59% (290) |
| 2000-01 | 547 | 28 | 19.5:1 | 35% (193) |
| 1990-91 | 596 | 29 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Highland Park Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 47% (524 to 276); teachers down 41% (30.8 to 18).
About Highland Park Elementary School
Highland Park Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school. Its address is in PUEBLO, Colorado. The school teaches pre-K through 5 and enrolls 276 students. It has 27% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Colorado (about 379).
Highland Park Elementary School reports to Pueblo School District 60, which has 34 schools and 14,351 students.
The largest group at Highland Park Elementary School is Hispanic students, at 74%. The remaining students are 25% White. Among people living in Pueblo County, the Hispanic share is about 42%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Highland Park Elementary School scores 39%.
Its ratio of 15.3:1 is based on 18 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in Colorado average 16.6:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 75%. For comparison, public schools in Pueblo County average 66%.
On the allk12 Grade, Highland Park Elementary School lands at F, ahead of 3% of Colorado public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 14.3%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 21.0%.
Looking at the county, 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 share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. The county's public schools total 66, with about 32,254 students.
Highland Park Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is South Park Elementary School, about 0.6 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Highland Park Elementary School is 3rd of 7 on proficiency.
Locale: City: Mid-size. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Highland Park Elementary School had a net loss of 142 students, or 34%.
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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
Other Highland Park Elementary schools
22 other US public schools in 15 states are named Highland Park Elementary. Highland Park Elementary School is the 20th largest of the 23.
- Highland Park ElementaryGILBERT, AZ · 787 students
- Highland Park Elementary SchoolUpper Darby, PA · 737 students
- Highland Park Elementary SchoolPFLUGERVILLE, TX · 706 students
- Highland Park Elementary SchoolBroken Arrow, OK · 654 students
- Highland Park Elementary SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 649 students
Nearby schools
- South Park Elementary School0.6 mi · 273
- Beulah Heights Elementary School0.7 mi · 264
- Roncalli Stem Academy0.8 mi · 247
- D60 Online School1.1 mi · 112
- South High School1.1 mi · 795
- Paragon Learning Center1.1 mi · 476
Frequently asked questions
About Highland Park Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Highland Park Elementary School?
Highland Park Elementary School enrolls approximately 276 students in grades PK-05.
Is Highland Park Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Highland Park Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Highland Park Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Highland Park Elementary School is approximately 15.3:1 (18 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Highland Park Elementary School?
At Highland Park Elementary School, the student body is approximately 25% White, 74% Hispanic, 1% Black.
Is Highland Park Elementary School public or private?
Highland Park 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.