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Enrollment
395
Elementary
DISTRICT 331 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MESA COUNTY VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 51·NCES 080435001657
Rocky Mountain Elementary School
3260 D1/2 ROAD, CLIFTON, CO 81520 · (970) 254-4900 · Mesa County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL395 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 17% 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.
- 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
13.7:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
314 students
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 50%
Community
1
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 | 28 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 59 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 7% larger than its 5th grade class (55).
Student demographics
54%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
24.0%
CO avg 44.9% . +6.3pp since 2023
Math
16.1%
CO avg 36.1% . +2.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 24 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.0% | 16.1% |
| 2023-24 | 17.7% | 13.8% |
% 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
17.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
18.5%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% 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 Rocky Mountain Elementary School
Rocky Mountain Elementary School's state test result (17.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Mountain Elementary School this school | 395 | 79.5% | 17.7% |
| Chipeta Elementary School GRAND JUNCTION | 364 | 76.4% | 34.8% |
| Nisley Elementary School GRAND JUNCTION | 346 | 81.5% | 17.8% |
| Clifton Elementary School CLIFTON | 346 | 75.4% | 14.6% |
| Dos Rios Elementary School GRAND JUNCTION | 293 | 79.5% | 26.9% |
| Pear Park Elementary School GRAND JUNCTION | 428 | 70.8% | 26.9% |
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 Rocky Mountain Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Mesa County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.7% | #806 of 931 | #25 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.1% | #781 of 940 ▲ 33 | #25 of 27 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #755 of 946 ▲ 86 | #25 of 27 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 395 | #439 of 1,056 | #6 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #184 of 896 | #3 of 26 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.4% | #325 of 896 | #3 of 26 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.5% | #159 of 983 | #5 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.0% | #363 of 664 | #11 of 20 |
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
-51 (-11%) vs 2020
-24% since 2000-01, when it was 517
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 28.9 | 13.7:1 | 79% (314) |
| 2023-24 | 416 | 31.5 | 13.2:1 | 86% (356) |
| 2022-23 | 469 | 30.7 | 15.3:1 | 75% (351) |
| 2020-21 | 446 | 28 | 15.9:1 | 84% (376) |
| 2017-18 | 470 | 31 | 15.2:1 | 82% (384) |
| 2015-16 | 518 | 33 | 15.7:1 | 88% (458) |
| 2010-11 | 573 | 45 | 12.7:1 | 76% (438) |
| 2000-01 | 517 | 31 | 16.7:1 | 64% (333) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rocky Mountain Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (470 to 395); teachers down 7% (31 to 28.9).
About Rocky Mountain Elementary School
Rocky Mountain Elementary School, located in CLIFTON, Colorado, is a medium-sized elementary school. Enrolled students number 395 students, in pre-K through 5.
Mesa County Valley School District No. 51 has a total of 45 schools and 20,344 students, Rocky Mountain Elementary School among them.
White students make up a majority at Rocky Mountain Elementary School, at 54%. Other students are 40% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. That is lower than the 82% White share among all Mesa County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 54% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Rocky Mountain Elementary School employs 28.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 13.7:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. Rocky Mountain Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 79%. That is higher than the 53% average for public schools in Mesa County.
Measured against Colorado public elementary schools, Rocky Mountain Elementary School receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On BeatsExpectations, Rocky Mountain Elementary School is within a point of its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Colorado schools.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Mesa County show that the median household income is $73,658, about 32% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Besides Rocky Mountain Elementary School, Mesa County has 56 other public schools.
Nearest public school: Chatfield Elementary School, about 0.7 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Rocky Mountain Elementary School is 7th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
Under the NCES locale system, Rocky Mountain Elementary School is Suburb: Mid-size.
Rocky Mountain Elementary School's enrollment dropped from 446 in 2020-21 to 395 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 15.9:1; by 2024-25 it was 13.7:1.
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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 CLIFTON
- Mount Garfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 569 students
- Clifton Elementary SchoolElementary · 346 students
Other Rocky Mountain Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 2 states are named Rocky Mountain Elementary. Rocky Mountain Elementary School is the largest of the 4.
- Rocky Mountain Elementary SchoolWESTMINSTER, CO · 318 students
- Rocky Mountain Elementary SchoolLONGMONT, CO · 315 students
- Rocky Mountain ElementaryCowley, WY · 322 students
Nearby schools
- Chatfield Elementary School0.7 mi · 371
- Clifton Elementary School1.6 mi · 346
- Central High School1.7 mi · 1,352
- Grand Mesa Middle School1.7 mi · 476
- Ascent Classical Academy of Grand Junction1.8 mi · 457
- Pear Park Elementary School2.2 mi · 428
Frequently asked questions
About Rocky Mountain Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Rocky Mountain Elementary School?
Rocky Mountain Elementary School enrolls approximately 395 students in grades PK-05.
Is Rocky Mountain Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Rocky Mountain Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Rocky Mountain Elementary School?
Approximately 13.7:1 students per teacher at Rocky Mountain Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Rocky Mountain Elementary School?
At Rocky Mountain Elementary School, the student body is approximately 54% White, 40% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Rocky Mountain Elementary School in?
Rocky Mountain Elementary School is part of Mesa County Valley School District No. 51.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.