Longfellow Elementary School

Longfellow Elementary School is an elementary-level community of medium-sized scale in SALIDA, Colorado, operated by Salida School District No. R-32, teacheing 449 students in grades K through 4.

Longfellow Elementary School is one of 6 schools operated by Salida School District No. R-32, a district that hosts 1,351 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Longfellow Elementary School records that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 13% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Longfellow Elementary School shows 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 40% of students at Longfellow Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Longfellow Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 42.7%; this one delivers 62.0%, a residual of +19.3 points.

In the broader community, census data for Chaffee County shows median household earnings sit near $84,132, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Longfellow Elementary School is one of 12 public schools in Chaffee County (combined enrollment of about 2,462 students).

Salida Montessori Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Longfellow Elementary School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 46.9%.

Longfellow Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Longfellow Elementary School's enrollment has increased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 435 (now 449). The White share of enrollment expanded from 79% to 84% over that span.

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