Monument Ridge Elementary School

Monument Ridge Elementary School, a small elementary campus in FRUITA, Colorado, one of the schools within Mesa County Valley School District No. 51, teaches 300 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Monument Ridge Elementary School sits 21% below that benchmark.

Across the 45 schools in Mesa County Valley School District No. 51 (20,344 students total), Monument Ridge Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Monument Ridge Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). The remainder reads as 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 30% of students at Monument Ridge Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Mesa County's rate of about 53%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Monument Ridge Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.3%, the actual is 48.9%, a residual of +0.6 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Mesa County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $73,658 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Mesa County runs 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,232 students), of which Monument Ridge Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Rim Rock Elementary School, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Monument Ridge Elementary School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 42.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

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