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Enrollment
508
Elementary
DISTRICT 573 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREELEY-EVANS SCHOOL DISTRICT 6·NCES 080441001291
Jackson Elementary School
2002 25TH STREET, GREELEY, CO 80631 · (970) 348-1500 · Weld County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL508 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 35% of Colorado public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
17.1:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.0:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
423 students
DISTRICT 70% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 80 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 97 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 95 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (95).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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
20.0%
CO avg 44.9% . -3.1pp since 2023
Math
18.6%
CO avg 36.1% . -6.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 20.0% | 18.6% |
| 2023-24 | 23.1% | 24.7% |
% 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
20.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.2%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 16% 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 Jackson Elementary School
Jackson Elementary School's state test result (20.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Elementary School this school | 508 | 83.3% | 20.9% |
| Stukey Elementary School NORTHGLENN | 348 | 87.6% | 20.4% |
| Malley Drive Elementary School NORTHGLENN | 435 | 77.5% | 17.8% |
| Vega Collegiate Academy AURORA | 583 | 97.8% | 15.6% |
| Thornton Elementary School THORNTON | 387 | 88.1% | 11.9% |
| Scott Elementary School GREELEY | 566 | 79.2% | 16.4% |
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 Jackson Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Weld County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.9% | #752 of 931 | #40 of 53 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.6% | #729 of 940 ▼ 114 | #41 of 55 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #823 of 946 ▼ 64 | #45 of 55 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 508 | #223 of 1,056 | #27 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #667 of 896 | #31 of 56 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.8% | #150 of 896 | #1 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.3% | #124 of 983 | #3 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +22.1% | #54 of 200 | #6 of 17 |
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
508
+97 (+24%) vs 2020
+9% since 1990-91, when it was 464
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
was 17.1:1
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 | 508 | 29.8 | 17.1:1 | 83% (423) |
| 2023-24 | 460 | 30.2 | 15.2:1 | 85% (392) |
| 2022-23 | 471 | 27.3 | 17.3:1 | 83% (393) |
| 2020-21 | 411 | 24 | 17.1:1 | 85% (350) |
| 2017-18 | 416 | 28 | 14.8:1 | 86% (359) |
| 2015-16 | 464 | 30 | 15.5:1 | 89% (411) |
| 2010-11 | 566 | 31 | 18.3:1 | 84% (475) |
| 2000-01 | 412 | 30 | 13.7:1 | 53% (218) |
| 1990-91 | 464 | 27 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jackson Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 22% (416 to 508); teachers up 6% (28 to 29.8).
About Jackson Elementary School
Jackson Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school that serves part of GREELEY, Colorado. The school's 508 students are in kindergarten through 5. Enrollment is 34% higher than the average for elementary schools in Colorado, which is about 379.
Greeley-Evans School District 6 has a total of 34 schools and 22,917 students, Jackson Elementary School among them.
By race and ethnicity, Jackson Elementary School is 55% Hispanic. After that, the student body is 18% Asian, 18% White, and 6% Black. Census figures show Weld County is about 31% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Jackson Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 63%.
At Jackson Elementary School, 29.8 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 17.1:1. Elementary schools in Colorado average about 16.6:1, a similar figure. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 83% of enrollment. The 47% average for public schools in Weld County is 36 points lower.
The allk12 Grade for Jackson Elementary School is C+. Compared with Colorado public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 35% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Compared with Colorado schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Jackson Elementary School's results are 4.7 points above predicted: 20.9% against 16.2%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Weld County, median household income is about $97,097, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 116 public schools operate in Weld County, serving about 61,274 students.
Nearby, Brentwood Middle School is about 0.5 miles away. Jackson Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools average 22.2% on proficiency, and Jackson Elementary School is below that at 20.9%.
Its NCES locale code is City: Mid-size: the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count grew from 411 to 508.
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Weld County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
350,396
Census ACS
Median income
$97,097
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
116
61,274 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Greeley-Evans School District 6
- Greeley West High SchoolHigh · 1,936 students
- University SchoolsCombined · 1,784 students
- Greeley Central High SchoolHigh · 1,507 students
- Frontier Charter AcademyCombined · 1,432 students
- Northridge High SchoolHigh · 1,322 students
- Tointon Academy of Pre-EngineeringElementary · 1,127 students
Other schools in GREELEY
- Greeley West High SchoolHigh · 1,936 students
- University SchoolsCombined · 1,784 students
- Greeley Central High SchoolHigh · 1,507 students
- Frontier Charter AcademyCombined · 1,432 students
- Northridge High SchoolHigh · 1,322 students
- Tointon Academy of Pre-EngineeringElementary · 1,127 students
Other Jackson Elementary schools
41 other US public schools in 20 states are named Jackson Elementary. Jackson Elementary School is the 7th largest of the 42.
- Jackson Elementary SchoolCOLORADO SPRINGS, CO · 312 students
- Jackson Elementary SchoolLawrenceville, GA · 1,430 students
- Jackson Elementary SchoolPLANO, TX · 705 students
- Jackson ElementarySHAKOPEE, MN · 683 students
- Jackson ElementaryRiverside, CA · 657 students
Nearby schools
- Brentwood Middle School0.5 mi · 564
- Frontier Charter Academy0.7 mi · 1,432
- Union Colony Elementary School0.9 mi · 342
- Dos Rios Elementary School0.9 mi · 499
- Chappelow K-8 Magnet School1.0 mi · 693
- Meeker Elementary School1.0 mi · 475
Frequently asked questions
About Jackson Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Jackson Elementary School?
Jackson Elementary School enrolls approximately 508 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Jackson Elementary School serve?
Jackson Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Jackson Elementary School?
Approximately 17.1:1 students per teacher at Jackson Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Jackson Elementary School?
At Jackson Elementary School, the student body is approximately 18% White, 55% Hispanic, 6% Black, 18% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Jackson Elementary School public or private?
Jackson Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Greeley-Evans School District 6.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.