Enrollment
277
Elementary
DISTRICT 324 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PUEBLO SCHOOL DISTRICT 60·NCES 080612001057
Minnequa Elementary School
1708 EAST ORMAN AVENUE, PUEBLO, CO 81004 · (719) 549-7580 · Pueblo County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL277 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 76% of Colorado public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+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
12.8:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
235 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 | 38 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 33 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 37 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 37 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 41 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (33) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (41).
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · 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
53.9%
CO avg 44.9% . +7.2pp since 2023
Math
50.9%
CO avg 36.1% . +9.0pp since 2023
What 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 51 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 | 53.9% | 50.9% |
| 2023-24 | 46.7% | 41.9% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
42.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
15.3%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+26.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 15% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 27 points, placing it in Colorado's top 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 Minnequa Elementary School
Minnequa Elementary School's state test result (42.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnequa Elementary School this school | 277 | 84.8% | 42.1% |
| South Park Elementary School PUEBLO | 273 | 81.7% | 26.6% |
| Bradford Elementary School PUEBLO | 252 | 89.3% | 15.6% |
| Beulah Heights Elementary School PUEBLO | 264 | 85.2% | 14.7% |
| Irving Elementary School PUEBLO | 326 | 85.0% | 25.6% |
| North Star Elementary School DENVER | 320 | 86.3% | 13.9% |
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 Minnequa Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Pueblo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.1% | #404 of 931 | #5 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.9% | #258 of 940 ▲ 100 | #1 of 33 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.9% | #301 of 946 ▲ 101 | #1 of 33 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 277 | #772 of 1,056 | #23 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #106 of 896 | #2 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.2% | #741 of 896 | #30 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.8% | #107 of 983 | #9 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -32.9% | #81 of 664 | #5 of 26 |
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
277
-29 (-9%) vs 2020
-38% since 1990-91, when it was 446
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 277 | 21.6 | 12.8:1 | 85% (235) |
| 2023-24 | 287 | 22 | 13.1:1 | 92% (264) |
| 2022-23 | 293 | 20.2 | 14.5:1 | 88% (257) |
| 2020-21 | 306 | 26 | 11.8:1 | 93% (285) |
| 2017-18 | 413 | 23.1 | 17.9:1 | 90% (371) |
| 2015-16 | 464 | 24 | 19.3:1 | 85% (396) |
| 2010-11 | 364 | 23 | 15.8:1 | 84% (307) |
| 2000-01 | 398 | 24 | 16.6:1 | 83% (331) |
| 1990-91 | 446 | 25 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Minnequa Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 33% (413 to 277); teachers down 6% (23.1 to 21.6).
About Minnequa Elementary School
Minnequa Elementary School serves students in PUEBLO, Colorado, as a small elementary school. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 277 students. The average for elementary schools in Colorado is about 379 students, so this school is 27% smaller than average.
Pueblo School District 60 operates 34 schools. Combined enrollment is 14,351 students.
By race and ethnicity, Minnequa Elementary School is 78% Hispanic. Beyond that, enrollment is 17% White and 3% Black. In Pueblo County overall, about 42% of residents are Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Minnequa Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 36%.
Teacher staffing is 21.6 full-time equivalents, or about 12.8 students per teacher. The 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado is higher than this school's figure. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 85%. Across public schools in Pueblo County, the average is 66%.
The allk12 Grade for Minnequa Elementary School is A-. Compared with Colorado public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 76% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate on state tests for Minnequa Elementary School is 15.3%. It actually posts 42.1%, which is 26.9 points higher and in the top 10% of Colorado schools.
County data help place the school in context: in Pueblo County, median household income is about $64,010, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 26% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The public schools of Pueblo County number 66 and enroll about 32,254.
The closest other public school is Academy of Las Animas Online School, about 0.3 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Minnequa Elementary School's average proficiency of 42.1% compares with 22.1% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Locale data from NCES put Minnequa Elementary School inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000 (City: Mid-size).
Minnequa Elementary School had 306 students in 2020-21 and 277 in 2024-25, a 9% decrease. The ratio was 11.8:1 in 2020-21 and 12.8:1 in 2024-25.
To ask about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater, start a discussion on this page. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Pueblo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
169,356
Census ACS
Median income
$64,010
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
66
32,254 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pueblo School District 60
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,145 students
- East High SchoolHigh · 1,081 students
- Chavez/Huerta K-12 Preparatory AcademyCombined · 844 students
- Centennial High SchoolHigh · 801 students
- South High SchoolHigh · 795 students
- W H Heaton Middle SchoolMiddle · 578 students
Other schools in PUEBLO
- GOAL AcademyHigh · 6,693 students
- Pueblo County High SchoolHigh · 1,148 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,145 students
- East High SchoolHigh · 1,081 students
- Chavez/Huerta K-12 Preparatory AcademyCombined · 844 students
- Centennial High SchoolHigh · 801 students
Nearby schools
- Academy of Las Animas Online School0.3 mi · 474
- Corwin International Magnet School0.5 mi · 565
- Bessemer Elementary School0.8 mi · 248
- Columbian Elementary School0.9 mi · 371
- Pueblo Charter School for the Arts & Sciences1.1 mi · 444
- Central High School1.3 mi · 1,145
Frequently asked questions
About Minnequa Elementary SchoolHow large is Minnequa Elementary School?
Minnequa Elementary School enrolls approximately 277 students in grades PK-05.
Is Minnequa Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Minnequa Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Minnequa Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Minnequa Elementary School is approximately 12.8:1 (22 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Minnequa Elementary School?
At Minnequa Elementary School, the student body is approximately 17% White, 78% Hispanic, 3% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Minnequa Elementary School?
Minnequa Elementary School is overseen by Pueblo School District 60 in Pueblo County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.