Morton Elementary School

As a medium-sized elementary-level community in PUEBLO, Colorado, Morton Elementary School serves 374 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Pueblo School District No. 60 in the county of Pueblo and.

Morton Elementary School is one of 34 schools operated by Pueblo School District No. 60 in the county of Pueblo and, a district that instructs 14,351 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Morton Elementary School reports that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 29% White, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

On the resource side, On paper, Morton Elementary School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Pueblo County (around 66%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Morton Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 19.7%; this one delivers 19.5%.

Across the wider county, Pueblo County reports that median household earnings sit near $64,010, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Morton Elementary School is one of 66 public schools in Pueblo County (combined enrollment of about 32,254 students).

Nearest neighbor: Centennial High School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Morton Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Morton Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 24.0%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Morton Elementary School has ticked down 23%, going from 488 students in 2018 to 374 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

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