Pear Park Elementary School

Pear Park Elementary School is an elementary school of mid-tier scale in GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado, overseen by Mesa County Valley School District No. 51, serveing 428 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Mesa County Valley School District No. 51, which oversees 45 schools and 20,344 students, Pear Park Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Pear Park Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 35% Hispanic. By comparison, Mesa County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Mesa County (around 53%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Pear Park Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.8%; this one delivers 26.9%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Mesa County shows median household earnings sit near $73,658, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Pear Park Elementary School is one of 57 public schools in Mesa County (combined enrollment of about 22,232 students).

Career Center Preschool is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pear Park Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 24.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Pear Park Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 472 (now 428). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.