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What's one thing Kemp Elementary School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
517
Elementary
DISTRICT 356 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ADAMS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 14·NCES 080195000016
Kemp Elementary School
6775 ONEIDA STREET, COMMERCE CITY, CO 80022 · (303) 288-6633 · Adams County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL517 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 36% 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.
- B+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
16.6:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
458 students
DISTRICT 88% · 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 | 77 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 64 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 64 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (77) is 20% larger than its 6th grade class (64).
Student demographics
12%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 20% · 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
18.4%
CO avg 44.9% . -6.4pp since 2023
Math
16.9%
CO avg 36.1% . -5.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.4% | 16.9% |
| 2023-24 | 24.8% | 22.4% |
% 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
19.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
13.0%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 13% 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 Kemp Elementary School
Kemp Elementary School's state test result (19.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kemp Elementary School this school | 517 | 88.6% | 19.3% |
| Dupont Elementary School COMMERCE CITY | 488 | 87.1% | 13.5% |
| Alsup Elementary School COMMERCE CITY | 492 | 85.4% | 14.8% |
| Colorado Sports Leadership Academy DENVER | 425 | 90.4% | 14.5% |
| Federal Heights Elementary School DENVER | 430 | 93.5% | 14.7% |
| Monaco Elementary School COMMERCE CITY | 434 | 87.1% | 12.7% |
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 Kemp Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Adams County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.3% | #778 of 931 | #54 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.9% | #764 of 940 ▼ 105 | #49 of 89 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.4% | #852 of 946 ▼ 118 | #71 of 89 ▼ 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 517 | #213 of 1,056 | #28 of 97 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #624 of 896 | #44 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 12.4% | #891 of 896 | #88 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.6% | #53 of 983 | #14 of 91 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.7% | #547 of 664 | #46 of 63 |
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
517
+44 (+9%) vs 2020
+9% since 1990-91, when it was 473
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 16.3:1
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 | 517 | 31.2 | 16.6:1 | 89% (458) |
| 2023-24 | 487 | 31.5 | 15.5:1 | 87% (424) |
| 2022-23 | 449 | 28.3 | 15.9:1 | 85% (381) |
| 2020-21 | 473 | 29 | 16.3:1 | 78% (368) |
| 2017-18 | 554 | 30 | 18.5:1 | 87% (483) |
| 2015-16 | 566 | 31 | 18.3:1 | 88% (499) |
| 2010-11 | 483 | 23 | 21.0:1 | 90% (437) |
| 2000-01 | 436 | 28 | 15.6:1 | 50% (216) |
| 1990-91 | 473 | 23 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kemp Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (554 to 517); teachers up 4% (30 to 31.2).
About Kemp Elementary School
Kemp Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in COMMERCE CITY, Colorado. The school covers pre-K through 6 and reported 517 students in 2024-25. The school is 36% bigger than the average for elementary schools in Colorado.
The 12 schools of Adams County School District 14, including Kemp Elementary School, enroll 5,221 students.
The share of students at Kemp Elementary School who are Hispanic is 93%. Other groups include 5% White. By comparison, Adams County residents are about 43% Hispanic. A diversity index of 12% means there is a 12% chance two randomly chosen students at Kemp Elementary School are from different groups.
Kemp Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.6:1, with 31.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is in line with the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. The school has 89% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 62% average for public schools in Adams County, the school's rate is higher.
Kemp Elementary School earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 36% of Colorado public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Kemp Elementary School is 6.3 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 19.3% actual, 13.0% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Colorado.
The school is in Adams County, where median household income comes to about $94,571, roughly 29% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Adams County's 171 public schools enroll about 87,938 students and include Kemp Elementary School.
Kemp Elementary School's nearest public school is Community Leadership Academy (about 0.7 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Kemp Elementary School ranks 1st of 5 on average proficiency.
Kemp Elementary School has an NCES locale of City: Small.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose 9%.
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Adams County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
530,225
Census ACS
Median income
$94,571
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
171
87,938 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Adams County School District 14
- Adams City High SchoolHigh · 1,500 students
- Alsup Elementary SchoolElementary · 492 students
- Dupont Elementary SchoolElementary · 488 students
- Monaco Elementary SchoolElementary · 434 students
- Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 421 students
- Kearney Middle SchoolMiddle · 397 students
Other schools in COMMERCE CITY
- Adams City High SchoolHigh · 1,500 students
- Otho E Stuart Middle SchoolMiddle · 794 students
- Landmark Academy at ReunionElementary · 758 students
- Reunion Elementary SchoolElementary · 742 students
- Turnberry ElementaryElementary · 742 students
- Second Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 697 students
Other Kemp Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Kemp Elementary. Kemp Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 4.
- Kemp Elementary SchoolPowder Springs, GA · 894 students
- Kemp Elementary SchoolHampton, GA · 586 students
- Kemp Elementary SchoolDayton, OH · 422 students
Nearby schools
- Community Leadership Academy0.7 mi · 316
- Lester R Arnold High School0.7 mi · 184
- Adams City High School0.7 mi · 1,500
- Mildred L Sanville Preschool0.7 mi · 33
- Central Elementary School0.8 mi · 421
- Kearney Middle School0.9 mi · 397
Frequently asked questions
About Kemp Elementary SchoolHow large is Kemp Elementary School?
Kemp Elementary School enrolls approximately 517 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Kemp Elementary School serve?
Kemp Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many teachers does Kemp Elementary School have?
Kemp Elementary School employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Kemp Elementary School?
Student demographics at Kemp Elementary School are roughly 5% White, 93% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Kemp Elementary School?
Kemp Elementary School is overseen by Adams County School District 14 in Adams County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.