Enrollment
236
Elementary
DISTRICT 328 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·THOMPSON SCHOOL DISTRICT R-2J·NCES 080540000937
Namaqua Elementary School
209 NORTH COUNTY ROAD 19E, LOVELAND, CO 80537 · (970) 613-6600 · Larimer County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL236 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 32% of Colorado public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
14.1:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
83 students
DISTRICT 37% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 35 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 36 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 36 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 43 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (35) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (43).
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · 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
44.3%
CO avg 44.9% . +6.1pp since 2023
Math
40.4%
CO avg 36.1% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.3% | 40.4% |
| 2023-24 | 38.2% | 36.4% |
% 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
37.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.4%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 Namaqua Elementary School
Namaqua Elementary School's state test result (37.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Namaqua Elementary School this school | 236 | 35.2% | 37.4% |
| Jefferson County Open Elementary School LAKEWOOD | 236 | 33.1% | 35.9% |
| Mount View Core Knowledge Charter School CANON CITY | 250 | 34.0% | 46.1% |
| Mancos Elementary School MANCOS | 217 | 37.8% | N/A |
| Byers Elementary School BYERS | 275 | 37.8% | 55.2% |
| Running Creek Elementary School ELIZABETH | 292 | 34.9% | 32.2% |
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 Namaqua Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Larimer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.4% | #476 of 931 | #39 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.4% | #407 of 940 ▲ 30 | #33 of 53 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.3% | #448 of 946 ▲ 69 | #37 of 53 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 236 | #857 of 1,056 | #47 of 56 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #235 of 896 | #17 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.6% | #667 of 896 | #37 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.2% | #640 of 983 | #28 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.9% | #402 of 664 | #30 of 41 |
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
236
-17 (-7%) vs 2020
-34% since 1990-91, when it was 357
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 12.7:1
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 | 236 | 16.8 | 14.1:1 | 35% (83) |
| 2023-24 | 242 | 16.8 | 14.4:1 | 48% (117) |
| 2022-23 | 252 | 17.1 | 14.7:1 | 37% (92) |
| 2020-21 | 253 | 20 | 12.7:1 | 35% (88) |
| 2017-18 | 274 | 16.1 | 17.0:1 | 24% (65) |
| 2015-16 | 323 | 17 | 19.0:1 | 25% (82) |
| 2010-11 | 396 | 22 | 18.0:1 | 18% (72) |
| 2000-01 | 625 | 32 | 19.5:1 | 7% (42) |
| 1990-91 | 357 | 19 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Namaqua Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (274 to 236); teachers up 4% (16.1 to 16.8).
About Namaqua Elementary School
Namaqua Elementary School runs as a small elementary school in LOVELAND, Colorado. A total of 236 students attend the school, which covers kindergarten through 5. The average for elementary schools in Colorado is about 379 students, so this school is 38% smaller than average.
Thompson School District R-2J runs Namaqua Elementary School along with 31 other schools, enrolling 14,580 students in total.
A majority of students at Namaqua Elementary School, 75%, are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 16% Hispanic and 8% multiracial. By the diversity index, Namaqua Elementary School comes in at 41%.
A ratio of 14.1:1 comes from the school's 16.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. For comparison, elementary schools in Colorado average 16.6:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 35% in 2024-25. Across public schools in Larimer County, the average is about the same, 35%.
Measured against Colorado public elementary schools, Namaqua Elementary School receives a C. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Test results at Namaqua Elementary School are 8.0 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (37.4% actual, 45.4% predicted).
Federal survey data for Larimer County show that median household income is about $93,765, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Namaqua Elementary School is among the 94 public schools in Larimer County.
The school nearest to Namaqua Elementary School is Walt Clark Middle School, at a distance of about 1.1 miles. Within five miles of Namaqua Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Namaqua Elementary School is 3rd of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Namaqua Elementary School is coded as City: Small in federal locale data.
Federal counts put enrollment at 253 in 2020-21 and 236 in 2024-25, a 7% decrease. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 12.7:1 in 2020-21 to 14.1:1 in 2024-25.
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Larimer County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
367,368
Census ACS
Median income
$93,765
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
94
47,159 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Thompson School District R-2J
- Loveland High SchoolHigh · 1,354 students
- Mountain View High SchoolHigh · 1,074 students
- Loveland Classical SchoolCombined · 1,032 students
- New Vision Charter SchoolElementary · 1,005 students
- Thompson Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,005 students
- Riverview PK-8Elementary · 757 students
Other schools in LOVELAND
- Loveland High SchoolHigh · 1,354 students
- Mountain View High SchoolHigh · 1,074 students
- Loveland Classical SchoolCombined · 1,032 students
- New Vision Charter SchoolElementary · 1,005 students
- Thompson Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,005 students
- Lucile Erwin Middle SchoolMiddle · 686 students
Nearby schools
- Walt Clark Middle School1.1 mi · 340
- Loveland Classical School1.1 mi · 1,032
- Sarah Milner Elementary School1.2 mi · 264
- Thompson Valley High School1.4 mi · 1,005
- Harold Ferguson High School1.6 mi · 164
- Garfield Elementary School2.2 mi · 213
Frequently asked questions
About Namaqua Elementary SchoolHow large is Namaqua Elementary School?
Namaqua Elementary School enrolls approximately 236 students in grades KG-05.
Is Namaqua Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Namaqua Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Namaqua Elementary School have?
Namaqua Elementary School employs 17 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.1:1.
How diverse is Namaqua Elementary School?
Namaqua Elementary School reports a student body of 75% White, 16% Hispanic, 0% Black, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Namaqua Elementary School?
Namaqua Elementary School is overseen by Thompson School District R-2J in Larimer County.
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