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What's one thing Northeast Elementary School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
470
Elementary
DISTRICT 612 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SCHOOL DISTRICT 27J·NCES 080258000149
Northeast Elementary School
1605 LONGSPEAK, BRIGHTON, CO 80601 · (303) 655-2550 · Adams County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL470 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 8% of Colorado public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
15.3:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.4:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
370 students
DISTRICT 51% · 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 | 41 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 27% larger than its 5th grade class (60).
Student demographics
28%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
19.7%
CO avg 44.9% . +3.1pp since 2023
Math
15.9%
CO avg 36.1% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 19.7% | 15.9% |
| 2023-24 | 16.6% | 12.9% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
15.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.0%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 19% 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 Northeast Elementary School
Northeast Elementary School's state test result (15.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northeast Elementary School this school | 470 | 78.7% | 15.6% |
| Clayton Partnership School THORNTON | 430 | 77.7% | 20.9% |
| Monterey Community School DENVER | 440 | 78.6% | 18.7% |
| Coronado Hills Elementary School THORNTON | 412 | 81.3% | 15.0% |
| Martinez Elementary School GREELEY | 469 | 80.4% | 19.3% |
| Alsup Elementary School COMMERCE CITY | 492 | 85.4% | 14.8% |
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 Northeast Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Adams County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.6% | #851 of 931 | #68 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.9% | #785 of 940 ▲ 43 | #55 of 89 ▲ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.7% | #829 of 946 ▲ 27 | #65 of 89 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 470 | #290 of 1,056 | #36 of 97 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #434 of 896 | #28 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.5% | #830 of 896 | #73 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.7% | #165 of 983 | #36 of 91 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.6% | #200 of 664 | #20 of 63 |
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
470
-80 (-15%) vs 2020
+4% since 1990-91, when it was 451
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 16.7:1
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 | 470 | 30.6 | 15.3:1 | 79% (370) |
| 2023-24 | 469 | 29.8 | 15.7:1 | 77% (359) |
| 2022-23 | 499 | 34.8 | 14.3:1 | 64% (320) |
| 2020-21 | 550 | 33 | 16.7:1 | 43% (236) |
| 2017-18 | 623 | 32.7 | 19.0:1 | 60% (371) |
| 2015-16 | 612 | 32 | 19.1:1 | 55% (337) |
| 2010-11 | 628 | 29 | 21.7:1 | 52% (324) |
| 2000-01 | 622 | 30 | 20.7:1 | 33% (205) |
| 1990-91 | 451 | 23 | 19.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Northeast Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 25% (623 to 470); teachers down 6% (32.7 to 30.6).
About Northeast Elementary School
Northeast Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Colorado, located in BRIGHTON. Enrollment totals 470 students across pre-K through 6. That puts enrollment 24% larger than the 379-student average for elementary schools in Colorado.
Northeast Elementary School is run by School District 27J, whose 33 schools enroll 24,044 students.
At Northeast Elementary School, 84% of students are Hispanic. Smaller groups are 12% White. For comparison, the population of Adams County is roughly 43% Hispanic. The diversity index for Northeast Elementary School is 28%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Northeast Elementary School reported 30.6 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 15.3:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Colorado is 16.6:1. There are 370 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 79% of enrollment. The rate at public schools in Adams County averages 62%, lower than here.
Among Colorado public elementary schools, Northeast Elementary School outscored 8%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Northeast Elementary School is 3.4 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (15.6% versus 19.0%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Colorado.
The school is in Adams County, where median household income comes to about $94,571, roughly 29% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Adams County counts 171 public schools with about 87,938 students.
A public school about 0.1 miles away, Overland Trail Middle School, is the closest to Northeast Elementary School. Northeast Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The school's 15.6% average proficiency ranks 5th among 6 nearby schools.
Northeast Elementary School is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Enrollment decreased 15% over 4 years, reaching 470 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 16.7:1 in 2020-21 to 15.3:1 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to Northeast Elementary School can post about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Adams County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
530,225
Census ACS
Median income
$94,571
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
171
87,938 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in School District 27J
- Colorado Connections @ 27JCombined · 2,042 students
- Prairie View High SchoolHigh · 1,809 students
- Riverdale Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,784 students
- Brighton High SchoolHigh · 1,733 students
- Bromley East Charter SchoolElementary · 1,214 students
- Rodger Quist Middle SchoolMiddle · 855 students
Other schools in BRIGHTON
- Horizon High SchoolHigh · 1,966 students
- Brighton High SchoolHigh · 1,733 students
- Bromley East Charter SchoolElementary · 1,214 students
- Foundations AcademyElementary · 763 students
- Elaine S. Padilla Elementary SchoolElementary · 672 students
- Eagle Ridge AcademyHigh · 593 students
Other Northeast Elementary schools
24 other US public schools in 17 states are named Northeast Elementary. Northeast Elementary School is the 10th largest of the 25.
- Northeast Elementary SchoolPARKER, CO · 329 students
- NORTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBRENTWOOD, NY · 937 students
- Northeast Elementary SchoolMeridian, MS · 730 students
- Northeast ElementaryClarksville, TN · 722 students
- Northeast ElementaryAnkeny, IA · 595 students
Nearby schools
- Overland Trail Middle School0.1 mi · 581
- Innovations & Options0.7 mi · 235
- Southeast Elementary School0.8 mi · 527
- 27J Online Academy0.8 mi · 336
- Bright Beginnings0.8 mi · 72
- Brighton High School1.0 mi · 1,733
Frequently asked questions
About Northeast Elementary SchoolHow large is Northeast Elementary School?
Northeast Elementary School enrolls approximately 470 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Northeast Elementary School serve?
Northeast Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many teachers does Northeast Elementary School have?
Northeast Elementary School employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Northeast Elementary School?
Student demographics at Northeast Elementary School are roughly 12% White, 84% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Northeast Elementary School public or private?
Northeast Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by School District 27J.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.