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Enrollment
747
Elementary
DISTRICT 352 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BOULDER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. RE2·NCES 080249006716
Meadowlark School
2300 SWEET MEADOW LANE, ERIE, CO 80516 · (720) 561-5104 · Boulder County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL747 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 79% of Colorado public elementary schools
- ATest 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
18.7:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
10%
77 students
DISTRICT 30% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 53 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 75 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 91 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 78 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 81 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 67 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 12% larger than its 8th grade class (67).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
70.1%
CO avg 44.9% . -0.8pp since 2023
Math
59.7%
CO avg 36.1% . +2.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 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 up about 3 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.1% | 59.7% |
| 2023-24 | 70.9% | 57.2% |
% 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
64.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.5%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 Meadowlark School
Meadowlark School's state test result (64.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meadowlark School this school | 747 | 10.3% | 64.4% |
| Thunder Vista P-8 BROOMFIELD | 725 | 10.1% | 62.7% |
| Dennison Elementary School LAKEWOOD | 575 | 12.7% | 88.8% |
| Prairie Crossing Elementary School PARKER | 612 | 16.3% | 64.1% |
| Gold Rush Elementary PARKER | 639 | 10.2% | 73.2% |
| Chinook Trail Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 632 | 16.9% | 64.3% |
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 Meadowlark School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Boulder County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.4% | #104 of 931 | #19 of 46 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.7% | #153 of 940 no change | #23 of 48 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.1% | #83 of 946 ▼ 6 | #17 of 48 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 747 | #51 of 1,056 | #2 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.7:1 | #820 of 896 | #46 of 47 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.6% | #405 of 896 | #12 of 47 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 10.3% | #945 of 983 | #44 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +60.3% | #8 of 200 | N/A |
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
747
+85 (+13%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
was 17.9:1
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 | 747 | 39.9 | 18.7:1 | 10% (77) |
| 2023-24 | 754 | 40.3 | 18.7:1 | 11% (84) |
| 2022-23 | 725 | 40 | 18.1:1 | 10% (69) |
| 2020-21 | 662 | 37 | 17.9:1 | 7% (49) |
| 2017-18 | 466 | 27.1 | 17.2:1 | 9% (40) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Meadowlark School.
Since 2017-18: students up 60% (466 to 747); teachers up 47% (27.1 to 39.9).
About Meadowlark School
This page covers Meadowlark School, a high-enrollment elementary school in ERIE, Colorado. Enrolled students number 747 students, in pre-K through 8. Enrollment is 97% higher than the average for elementary schools in Colorado, which is about 379.
The Boulder Valley School District No. Re2 system has 56 schools and 27,988 students.
Meadowlark School is 67% White by enrollment. Smaller groups are 10% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 10% Asian, and 2% Black. County-wide, 78% of Boulder County residents are White. Meadowlark School's diversity index is 52%, against a US figure of 70%.
Meadowlark School employs 39.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 18.7:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. Meadowlark School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 10%. That is lower than the 33% average for public schools in Boulder County.
Measured against Colorado public elementary schools, Meadowlark School receives an A-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Meadowlark School is 3.9 points above the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 64.4% actual, 60.5% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Colorado.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Boulder County show that the median household income is $103,994, about 64% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Besides Meadowlark School, Boulder County has 85 other public schools.
The nearest other public school, Red Hawk Elementary, is about 1.1 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Meadowlark School ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, Meadowlark School is Suburb: Small.
Enrollment has grown by 85 students since 2020-21, to 747.
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Boulder County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
328,961
Census ACS
Median income
$103,994
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
64%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
86
42,200 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Boulder Valley School District No. Re2
- Boulder High SchoolHigh · 1,939 students
- Fairview High SchoolHigh · 1,863 students
- Broomfield High SchoolHigh · 1,693 students
- Centaurus High SchoolHigh · 1,557 students
- Peak to Peak Charter SchoolCombined · 1,447 students
- Monarch High SchoolHigh · 1,431 students
Other schools in ERIE
- Erie High SchoolHigh · 1,727 students
- Soaring Heights PK-8Elementary · 1,211 students
- Erie Middle SchoolMiddle · 762 students
- Black Rock ElementaryElementary · 597 students
- Red Hawk ElementaryElementary · 588 students
- Aspen Ridge Preparatory SchoolElementary · 581 students
Other Meadowlark schools
4 other US public schools in 3 states are named Meadowlark. Meadowlark School is the largest of the 5.
- Meadowlark SchoolBillings, MT · 691 students
- Meadowlark SchoolSALT LAKE CITY, UT · 434 students
- Meadowlark SchoolChinook, MT · 144 students
- Meadowlark SchoolConrad, MT · 144 students
Nearby schools
- Red Hawk Elementary1.1 mi · 588
- Aspen Ridge Preparatory School1.6 mi · 581
- Erie Elementary School1.8 mi · 486
- Erie Middle School2.0 mi · 762
- Pioneer Bilingual Elementary School2.3 mi · 439
- Lafayette Elementary School2.5 mi · 497
Frequently asked questions
About Meadowlark SchoolHow many students attend Meadowlark School?
Meadowlark School enrolls approximately 747 students in grades PK-08.
Is Meadowlark School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Meadowlark School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Meadowlark School have?
Meadowlark School employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Meadowlark School?
Student demographics at Meadowlark School are roughly 67% White, 10% Hispanic, 2% Black, 10% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Meadowlark School in?
Meadowlark School is part of Boulder Valley School District No. Re2.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.