Enrollment
395
Elementary
DISTRICT 331 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MESA COUNTY VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 51·NCES 080435000621
Pomona Elementary School
588 25-1/2 ROAD, GRAND JUNCTION, CO 81505 · (970) 254-4990 · Mesa County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL395 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 74% of Colorado public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
198 students
DISTRICT 54% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 25 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
53.7%
CO avg 44.9% . +3.1pp since 2023
Math
47.2%
CO avg 36.1% . +5.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 6 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.7% | 47.2% |
| 2023-24 | 50.6% | 41.7% |
% 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
47.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.3%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 Pomona Elementary School
Pomona Elementary School's state test result (47.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pomona Elementary School this school | 395 | 50.1% | 47.5% |
| Thunder Mountain Elementary School GRAND JUNCTION | 432 | 54.4% | 25.4% |
| South Ridge Elementary An IB World School CASTLE ROCK | 371 | 53.1% | 33.8% |
| Estes Park K-5 School ESTES PARK | 431 | 52.4% | 30.2% |
| Falcon Elementary School of Technology FALCON | 318 | 47.5% | 35.9% |
| Bennett Elementary School FORT COLLINS | 362 | 48.6% | 50.8% |
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 Pomona Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Mesa County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.5% | #336 of 931 | #8 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.2% | #297 of 940 ▲ 66 | #9 of 27 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.7% | #305 of 946 ▲ 49 | #9 of 27 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 395 | #438 of 1,056 | #5 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #423 of 896 | #13 of 26 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.2% | #356 of 896 | #4 of 26 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.1% | #476 of 983 | #16 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.8% | #144 of 200 | N/A |
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
395
+58 (+17%) vs 2020
+33% since 1990-91, when it was 298
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 16.9:1
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 | 395 | 25.9 | 15.3:1 | 50% (198) |
| 2023-24 | 393 | 25 | 15.7:1 | 54% (212) |
| 2022-23 | 347 | 23.8 | 14.6:1 | 44% (154) |
| 2020-21 | 337 | 20 | 16.9:1 | 43% (145) |
| 2017-18 | 377 | 23 | 16.4:1 | 37% (141) |
| 2015-16 | 384 | 23 | 16.7:1 | 44% (169) |
| 2010-11 | 417 | 24 | 17.4:1 | 40% (165) |
| 2000-01 | 366 | 19 | 19.3:1 | 30% (110) |
| 1990-91 | 298 | 16 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pomona Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (377 to 395); teachers up 12% (23 to 25.9).
About Pomona Elementary School
Pomona Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado, administered by Mesa County Valley School District No. 51. Federal data show 395 students enrolled in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
Besides Pomona Elementary School, Mesa County Valley School District No. 51 runs 44 other schools. The district enrolls 20,344 students.
About 61% of the student body at Pomona Elementary School is White. Enrollment also includes 31% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Among people living in Mesa County, the White share is about 82%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 53%.
There are about 15.3 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Pomona Elementary School, which has 25.9. The school's 15.3:1 compares with an average of 16.6:1 for elementary schools in Colorado. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 50%. Public schools in Mesa County average a similar 53%.
On the allk12 Grade, Pomona Elementary School lands at B+, ahead of 74% of Colorado public elementary schools.
A school with Pomona Elementary School's lunch-eligibility share in Colorado is predicted to score 36.3%. Pomona Elementary School scores 47.5%, 11.2 points above that line.
Looking at the county, Mesa County, the median household earns about $73,658 a year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Pomona Elementary School, Mesa County has 57 public schools.
West Middle School sits about 0.6 miles from Pomona Elementary School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Of the 6 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Pomona Elementary School is 1st on average proficiency.
Locale: City: Small. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 17% increase, from 337 to 395. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 16.9:1 to 15.3:1.
This page is set up for the Pomona Elementary School community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Mesa County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
158,601
Census ACS
Median income
$73,658
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
57
22,232 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Mesa County Valley School District No. 51
- Grand Junction High SchoolHigh · 1,832 students
- Fruita Monument High SchoolHigh · 1,427 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,352 students
- Palisade High SchoolHigh · 1,073 students
- Fruita Middle SchoolMiddle · 690 students
- Redlands Middle SchoolMiddle · 632 students
Other schools in GRAND JUNCTION
- Grand Junction High SchoolHigh · 1,832 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,352 students
- Caprock AcademyCombined · 871 students
- Redlands Middle SchoolMiddle · 632 students
- Orchard Mesa Middle SchoolMiddle · 560 students
- Bookcliff Middle SchoolMiddle · 525 students
Other Pomona Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Pomona Elementary. Pomona Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- Pomona Elementary SchoolMONTROSE, CO · 335 students
- Pomona Elementary SchoolMANVEL, TX · 721 students
- Pomona ElementaryCosta Mesa, CA · 264 students
Nearby schools
- West Middle School0.6 mi · 468
- Mesa Valley Community School0.7 mi · 178
- Juniper Ridge Community School0.8 mi · 375
- Wildflower Montessori Public School of Colorado Grand Valley1.0 mi · 40
- Tope Elementary School1.1 mi · 370
- Grand Junction High School1.1 mi · 1,832
Frequently asked questions
About Pomona Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Pomona Elementary School?
Pomona Elementary School enrolls approximately 395 students in grades PK-05.
Is Pomona Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Pomona Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Pomona Elementary School have?
Pomona Elementary School employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Pomona Elementary School?
Student demographics at Pomona Elementary School are roughly 61% White, 31% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Pomona Elementary School public or private?
Pomona Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Mesa County Valley School District No. 51.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.