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Legacy Point Elementary School
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 58 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 84 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 75 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is 12% larger than its 5th grade class (75).
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsWhat this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.0% | 53.5% |
| 2023-24 | 46.9% | 44.7% |
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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%.
Schools most like Legacy Point Elementary School
Legacy Point Elementary School's state test result (47.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legacy Point Elementary School this school | 499 | 20.6% | 47.7% |
| Zach Elementary School FORT COLLINS | 492 | 15.9% | 84.4% |
| Northridge Elementary School HIGHLANDS RANCH | 560 | 15.4% | 73.7% |
| Black Rock Elementary ERIE | 597 | 19.3% | 61.4% |
| Monarch K-8 School LOUISVILLE | 698 | 23.9% | 52.6% |
| Hulstrom K-8 NORTHGLENN | 663 | 11.5% | 85.5% |
Where Legacy Point Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Douglas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.7% | #333 of 931 | #51 of 58 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.5% | #219 of 940 ▲ 89 | #37 of 58 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #300 of 946 ▲ 98 | #49 of 58 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 499 | #234 of 1,056 | #24 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #403 of 896 | #21 of 59 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.1% | #146 of 896 | #4 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.6% | #820 of 983 | #21 of 60 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +20.8% | #62 of 200 | #3 of 14 |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 499 | 33 | 15.1:1 | 21% (103) |
| 2023-24 | 515 | 27.2 | 18.9:1 | 19% (97) |
| 2022-23 | 416 | 25.2 | 16.5:1 | 9% (38) |
| 2020-21 | 294 | 18 | 16.3:1 | 14% (40) |
| 2017-18 | 413 | 22.8 | 18.1:1 | 16% (65) |
| 2015-16 | 513 | 24 | 21.4:1 | 16% (80) |
| 2010-11 | 504 | 24 | 21.0:1 | 12% (59) |
Since 2017-18: students up 21% (413 to 499); teachers up 45% (22.8 to 33).
About Legacy Point Elementary School
Legacy Point Elementary School sits in PARKER, Colorado, and is classified as an elementary school. The school counts 499 students across pre-K through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in Colorado is about 379 students.
Douglas County School District No. Re 1 runs 89 schools with a combined 61,550 students. Legacy Point Elementary School is one of them.
Roughly 55% of students at Legacy Point Elementary School are White. Other groups make up 20% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 9% multiracial, and 3% Black. County-wide, 80% of Douglas County residents are White. The school's diversity index is 63%, meaning two students picked at random have a 63% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Legacy Point Elementary School counts 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 15.1 students for each one. This ratio sits 1.4 below the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. About 21% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits.
allk12 grades Legacy Point Elementary School a C+. The grade compares the school only with Colorado public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
After adjusting for student poverty, Legacy Point Elementary School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Colorado schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 47.7%; the prediction is 54.2%.
Legacy Point Elementary School is located in Douglas County, where the median household income is $149,594, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 62%, and roughly 3% of residents are in poverty. Besides Legacy Point Elementary School, Douglas County has 91 other public schools.
The shortest distance from Legacy Point Elementary School to another public school is about 1.3 miles, to Leman Classical Academy. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Legacy Point Elementary School ranks 7th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
Federal data place Legacy Point Elementary School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data put enrollment at 294 in 2020-21 and 499 in 2024-25; the school may have served different grades in those years. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 16.3:1; by 2024-25 it was 15.1:1.
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