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Rocky Mountain Prep: Fletcher
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 61 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 105 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 108 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 109 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 104 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 100 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 114 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (105) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (114).
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsWhat this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.2% | 26.4% |
| 2023-24 | 24.6% | 23.9% |
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 12% 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%.
Schools most like Rocky Mountain Prep: Fletcher
Rocky Mountain Prep: Fletcher's state test result (25.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Mountain Prep: Fletcher this school | 701 | 89.4% | 25.2% |
| Marie L. Greenwood Academy DENVER | 597 | 88.4% | 15.9% |
| Farrell B. Howell ECE-8 School DENVER | 585 | 88.9% | 12.9% |
| Maxwell Elementary School DENVER | 638 | 92.9% | 12.5% |
| Virginia Court Elementary School AURORA | 657 | 90.4% | 13.6% |
| Del Mar Academy AURORA | 950 | 82.5% | 9.9% |
Where Rocky Mountain Prep: Fletcher ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Adams County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.2% | #674 of 931 | #37 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.4% | #597 of 940 ▲ 25 | #28 of 89 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.2% | #736 of 946 ▼ 2 | #48 of 89 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 701 | #64 of 1,056 | #8 of 97 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #426 of 896 | #27 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.9% | #660 of 896 | #56 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.4% | #37 of 983 | #11 of 91 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +206.1% | #1 of 200 | #1 of 20 |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 701 | 45.9 | 15.3:1 | 89% (627) |
| 2023-24 | 614 | 37.2 | 16.5:1 | 86% (529) |
| 2022-23 | 571 | 41.4 | 13.8:1 | 80% (454) |
| 2020-21 | 530 | 47 | 11.3:1 | 89% (471) |
| 2017-18 | 229 | 16.1 | 14.3:1 | 88% (202) |
Since 2017-18: students up 206% (229 to 701); teachers up 186% (16.1 to 45.9).
About Rocky Mountain Prep: Fletcher
Rocky Mountain Prep: Fletcher is one of the public schools in AURORA, Colorado. It is a large elementary school. The school teaches pre-K through 5 and enrolls 701 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Colorado enroll about 379 students on average.
Aurora Public Schools runs Rocky Mountain Prep: Fletcher along with 58 other schools, enrolling 39,464 students in total.
More than half of enrollment at Rocky Mountain Prep: Fletcher is Hispanic: 76%. Enrollment also includes 12% Black, 5% White, and 4% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 33 points above the 43% share among Adams County residents. The diversity index for Rocky Mountain Prep: Fletcher is 41%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
With 45.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 15.3:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Colorado average 16.6:1. Roughly 89% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Adams County average 62%.
On the allk12 Grade, Rocky Mountain Prep: Fletcher lands at B-, ahead of 54% of Colorado public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 12.5% for Rocky Mountain Prep: Fletcher. The school posts 25.2%, 12.7 points above the prediction.
The school is in Adams County, where median household income comes to about $94,571, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Adams County's 171 public schools enroll about 87,938 students and include Rocky Mountain Prep: Fletcher.
Aurora Science & Tech Middle School is the nearest public school to Rocky Mountain Prep: Fletcher, less than a tenth of a mile away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Among 7 nearby schools that report test results, Rocky Mountain Prep: Fletcher ranks 3rd on proficiency.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large). Rocky Mountain Prep: Fletcher operates as a charter school, which is publicly funded and run under a charter.
Enrollment was 701 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 530. The ratio of students to teachers went from 11.3:1 to 15.3:1 over the same years.
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