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Which teacher or staff member at Pioneer Elementary School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
449
Elementary
DISTRICT 517 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOUGLAS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. RE 1·NCES 080345001583
Pioneer Elementary School
10881 RIVA RIDGE STREET, PARKER, CO 80138 · (303) 387-8400 · Douglas County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL449 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% of Colorado public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
14.8:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
124 students
DISTRICT 19% · 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 | 71 | 16% |
| Kindergarten | 58 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (69).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
58.4%
CO avg 44.9% . +1.4pp since 2023
Math
54.8%
CO avg 36.1% . -1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.4% | 54.8% |
| 2023-24 | 57.0% | 56.4% |
% 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
55.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.0%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 Pioneer Elementary School
Pioneer Elementary School's state test result (55.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer Elementary School this school | 449 | 27.6% | 55.5% |
| Chipeta Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 395 | 27.8% | 70.9% |
| Iron Horse Elementary School PARKER | 430 | 22.8% | 55.7% |
| Littleton Prep Charter School LITTLETON | 498 | 27.1% | 49.2% |
| University Park Elementary School DENVER | 413 | 28.6% | 65.7% |
| Meridian Elementary School BROOMFIELD | 525 | 22.9% | 69.6% |
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 Pioneer Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Douglas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.5% | #206 of 931 | #35 of 58 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.8% | #203 of 940 ▼ 42 | #34 of 58 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.4% | #237 of 946 ▲ 24 | #39 of 58 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 449 | #325 of 1,056 | #31 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #351 of 896 | #16 of 59 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.7% | #321 of 896 | #17 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.6% | #732 of 983 | #9 of 60 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.0% | #520 of 664 | #34 of 45 |
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
449
+32 (+8%) vs 2020
-40% since 2000-01, when it was 743
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 449 | 30.3 | 14.8:1 | 28% (124) |
| 2023-24 | 464 | 30.5 | 15.2:1 | 30% (138) |
| 2022-23 | 440 | 28.5 | 15.4:1 | 20% (87) |
| 2020-21 | 417 | 27 | 15.4:1 | 17% (72) |
| 2017-18 | 488 | 25 | 19.5:1 | 19% (94) |
| 2015-16 | 556 | 29 | 19.2:1 | 19% (106) |
| 2010-11 | 571 | 29 | 19.7:1 | 14% (78) |
| 2000-01 | 743 | 37 | 20.1:1 | 4% (28) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pioneer Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (488 to 449); teachers up 21% (25 to 30.3).
About Pioneer Elementary School
Pioneer Elementary School serves students in PARKER, Colorado, as a mid-sized elementary school. The school teaches pre-K through 5 and enrolls 449 students.
Douglas County School District No. Re 1 is made up of 89 schools with 61,550 students in all.
More than half of enrollment at Pioneer Elementary School is White: 64%. Enrollment also includes 16% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 5% Asian, and 2% Black. The school's White share is 16 points below the 80% share among Douglas County residents. The diversity index for Pioneer Elementary School is 55%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school has 30.3 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 14.8 students per teacher. Elementary schools in Colorado have an average ratio of 16.6:1. The school reported 28% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. On average, public schools in Douglas County report 18%.
On the allk12 Grade, Pioneer Elementary School lands at A-, ahead of 75% of Colorado public elementary schools.
Pioneer Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 55.5%, compared with a predicted 50.0%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Colorado schools on BeatsExpectations.
The county, Douglas County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $149,594 a year, 62% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Pioneer Elementary School, Douglas County has 92 public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Iron Horse Elementary School, is about 1.0 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Pioneer Elementary School is 3rd among 9 schools close by.
In the federal locale system, Pioneer Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Pioneer Elementary School enrolled 417 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 449.
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Douglas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
377,150
Census ACS
Median income
$149,594
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
62%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
92
63,841 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Douglas County School District No. Re 1
- American AcademyElementary · 2,803 students
- Rock Canyon High SchoolHigh · 2,325 students
- Legend High SchoolHigh · 2,206 students
- Mountain Vista High SchoolHigh · 2,169 students
- Chaparral High SchoolHigh · 2,007 students
- Castle View High SchoolHigh · 1,938 students
Other schools in PARKER
- Legend High SchoolHigh · 2,206 students
- Chaparral High SchoolHigh · 2,007 students
- Ponderosa High SchoolHigh · 1,406 students
- Leman Classical AcademyElementary · 1,390 students
- Cimarron MiddleMiddle · 1,052 students
- Sagewood Middle SchoolMiddle · 816 students
Other Pioneer Elementary schools
28 other US public schools in 12 states are named Pioneer Elementary. Pioneer Elementary School is the 18th largest of the 29.
- Pioneer Elementary SchoolCOLORADO SPRINGS, CO · 382 students
- Pioneer Elementary SchoolFORT MORGAN, CO · 243 students
- Pioneer ElementaryMerced, CA · 1,055 students
- Pioneer ElementaryBrentwood, CA · 859 students
- Pioneer ElementaryUnion City, CA · 623 students
Nearby schools
- Iron Horse Elementary School1.0 mi · 430
- Parker Core Knowledge1.5 mi · 705
- Cimarron Middle1.6 mi · 1,052
- Frontier Valley Elementary School1.7 mi · 369
- Legend High School1.8 mi · 2,206
- Pine Lane Elementary2.3 mi · 744
Frequently asked questions
About Pioneer Elementary SchoolHow large is Pioneer Elementary School?
Pioneer Elementary School enrolls approximately 449 students in grades PK-05.
Is Pioneer Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Pioneer Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Pioneer Elementary School have?
Pioneer Elementary School employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Pioneer Elementary School?
Student demographics at Pioneer Elementary School are roughly 64% White, 16% Hispanic, 2% Black, 5% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees Pioneer Elementary School?
Pioneer Elementary School is overseen by Douglas County School District No. Re 1 in Douglas County.
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