Enrollment
335
Elementary
DISTRICT 328 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·THOMPSON SCHOOL DISTRICT R-2J·NCES 080540006432
Ponderosa Elementary
4550 FLORENCE DRIVE, LOVELAND, CO 80538 · (970) 679-9500 · Larimer County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL335 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 44% 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.
- C-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
15.7:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
76 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 23 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 43 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 43 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 27% smaller than its 5th grade class (59).
Student demographics
37%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
60.4%
CO avg 44.9% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
46.7%
CO avg 36.1% . +8.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 60 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.4% | 46.7% |
| 2023-24 | 51.4% | 38.4% |
% 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
46.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.0%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 Ponderosa Elementary
Ponderosa Elementary's state test result (46.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ponderosa Elementary this school | 335 | 22.7% | 46.5% |
| Sleeping Giant School STEAMBOAT SPRINGS | 337 | 24.6% | 55.2% |
| Edith Wolford Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 372 | 20.4% | 51.9% |
| Wingate Elementary School GRAND JUNCTION | 363 | 19.8% | 71.8% |
| Free Horizon Montessori GOLDEN | 382 | 24.1% | 38.5% |
| Rockrimmon Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 390 | 23.6% | 62.2% |
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 Ponderosa Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Larimer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.5% | #347 of 931 | #28 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.7% | #309 of 940 ▲ 101 | #23 of 53 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.4% | #205 of 946 ▲ 135 | #16 of 53 ▲ 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 335 | #601 of 1,056 | #29 of 56 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #491 of 896 | #35 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.8% | #733 of 896 | #42 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.7% | #794 of 983 | #46 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.7% | #328 of 664 | #25 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
335
-20 (-6%) vs 2020
-9% since 2010-11, when it was 370
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 335 | 21.3 | 15.7:1 | 23% (76) |
| 2023-24 | 353 | 21.4 | 16.5:1 | 34% (119) |
| 2022-23 | 364 | 22.2 | 16.4:1 | 23% (84) |
| 2020-21 | 355 | 24 | 14.8:1 | 26% (91) |
| 2017-18 | 407 | 24.8 | 16.4:1 | 29% (120) |
| 2015-16 | 445 | 23 | 19.4:1 | 24% (109) |
| 2010-11 | 370 | 19 | 19.5:1 | 20% (74) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ponderosa Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (407 to 335); teachers down 14% (24.8 to 21.3).
About Ponderosa Elementary
Ponderosa Elementary is an elementary school with a street address in LOVELAND, Colorado. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 335 students enrolled.
Federal data list 32 schools in Thompson School District R-2J, with 14,580 students enrolled.
The student body at Ponderosa Elementary is 77% White. It is also 18% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. A diversity index of 37% means there is a 37% chance two randomly chosen students at Ponderosa Elementary are from different groups.
Classroom staffing at Ponderosa Elementary totals 21.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.7:1. The average for elementary schools in Colorado is 16.6:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Ponderosa Elementary is about 23%. For comparison, public schools in Larimer County average 35%.
Ponderosa Elementary earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 44% of Colorado public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Ponderosa Elementary falls in the middle 80% of Colorado schools: 46.5% actual against 53.0% predicted.
In the surrounding county, Larimer County, the median household earns about $93,765 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 53%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Counting Ponderosa Elementary, Larimer County has 94 public schools.
A public school about 0.7 miles away, Lucile Erwin Middle School, is the closest to Ponderosa Elementary. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 35.0%, lower than Ponderosa Elementary's 46.5%.
Ponderosa Elementary has an NCES locale of City: Small.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 335, from 355 in 2020-21.
The Ponderosa Elementary discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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
Other Ponderosa Elementary schools
11 other US public schools in 8 states are named Ponderosa Elementary. Ponderosa Elementary is the 12th largest of the 12.
- Ponderosa Elementary SchoolAURORA, CO · 634 students
- Ponderosa ElementaryAnaheim, CA · 785 students
- Ponderosa Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 740 students
- Ponderosa ElementarySunnyvale, CA · 524 students
- PONDEROSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPOST FALLS, ID · 466 students
Nearby schools
- Lucile Erwin Middle School0.7 mi · 686
- Centennial Elementary School1.4 mi · 324
- Lincoln Elementary School2.1 mi · 196
- Loveland High School2.1 mi · 1,354
- Laurene Edmondson Elementary School2.3 mi · 235
- Harold Ferguson High School2.4 mi · 164
Frequently asked questions
About Ponderosa ElementaryHow many students attend Ponderosa Elementary?
Ponderosa Elementary enrolls approximately 335 students in grades PK-05.
Is Ponderosa Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Ponderosa Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Ponderosa Elementary have?
Ponderosa Elementary employs 21 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.7:1.
How diverse is Ponderosa Elementary?
Ponderosa Elementary reports a student body of 77% White, 18% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Ponderosa Elementary?
Ponderosa Elementary is overseen by Thompson School District R-2J in Larimer County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.