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Enrollment
932
Elementary
DISTRICT 573 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREELEY-EVANS SCHOOL DISTRICT 6·NCES 080441001483
S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy
600 51ST AVENUE, GREELEY, CO 80634 · (970) 348-1900 · Weld County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL932 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 69% 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
19.0:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.0:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
485 students
DISTRICT 70% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 92 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 100 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 104 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 103 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 106 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 105 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 112 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 107 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 103 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (92) is 11% smaller than its 8th grade class (103).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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
56.1%
CO avg 44.9% . +4.3pp since 2023
Math
43.8%
CO avg 36.1% . +4.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.1% | 43.8% |
| 2023-24 | 51.8% | 39.2% |
% 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
44.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.2%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy
S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy's state test result (44.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy this school | 932 | 52.0% | 44.1% |
| Tointon Academy of Pre-Engineering GREELEY | 1,127 | 58.9% | 31.6% |
| Elaine S. Padilla Elementary School BRIGHTON | 672 | 48.2% | 32.9% |
| Turnberry Elementary COMMERCE CITY | 742 | 51.5% | 23.1% |
| Thunder Valley PK-8 FREDERICK | 880 | 63.1% | 18.0% |
| Bromley East Charter School BRIGHTON | 1,214 | 39.5% | 22.8% |
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 S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Weld County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.1% | #383 of 931 | #17 of 53 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.8% | #358 of 940 ▲ 43 | #19 of 55 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.1% | #276 of 946 ▲ 55 | #8 of 55 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 932 | #17 of 1,056 | #3 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.0:1 | #831 of 896 | #47 of 56 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.3% | #279 of 896 | #5 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.0% | #453 of 983 | #28 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +29.4% | #39 of 200 | #5 of 17 |
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
932
+84 (+10%) vs 2020
+146% since 1990-91, when it was 379
Student : Teacher
19.0:1
was 18.8:1
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 | 932 | 49.1 | 19.0:1 | 52% (485) |
| 2023-24 | 907 | 50.1 | 18.1:1 | 56% (512) |
| 2022-23 | 895 | 51.6 | 17.3:1 | 50% (450) |
| 2020-21 | 848 | 45 | 18.8:1 | 49% (414) |
| 2017-18 | 720 | 36.4 | 19.8:1 | 43% (311) |
| 2015-16 | 502 | 27 | 18.6:1 | 45% (227) |
| 2010-11 | 594 | 28 | 21.2:1 | 29% (174) |
| 2000-01 | 676 | 34 | 19.9:1 | 11% (71) |
| 1990-91 | 379 | 16 | 23.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy.
Since 2017-18: students up 29% (720 to 932); teachers up 35% (36.4 to 49.1).
About S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy
S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy is a large elementary school with its address in GREELEY, Colorado. The school counts 932 students across kindergarten through 8. The school's enrollment is 146% above the 379 average for elementary schools in Colorado.
S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy is one school in a 34-school district, Greeley-Evans School District 6, which enrolls 22,917 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy. The largest is Hispanic students, at 49%. The remaining shares are 44% White, 3% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Weld County's population at about 31%. Pick two students at random and there is a 56% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 19.0:1, with 49.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is 2.4 students per teacher above the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 52% of enrollment.
Measured against Colorado public elementary schools, S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy receives a B+. 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 a poverty-adjusted basis, S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy falls in the middle 80% of Colorado schools: 44.1% actual against 35.2% predicted.
Census estimates describe Weld County this way: the median household income is $97,097, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy, Weld County has 115 other public schools.
Early College Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles away. The five-mile area around S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy holds at least 8 other public schools. S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy's average proficiency of 44.1% compares with 22.7% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The federal government classifies S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy's location as City: Mid-size.
The school enrolled 932 students in 2024-25, 84 more than the 848 it had in 2020-21.
The S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Weld County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
350,396
Census ACS
Median income
$97,097
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
116
61,274 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Greeley-Evans School District 6
- Greeley West High SchoolHigh · 1,936 students
- University SchoolsCombined · 1,784 students
- Greeley Central High SchoolHigh · 1,507 students
- Frontier Charter AcademyCombined · 1,432 students
- Northridge High SchoolHigh · 1,322 students
- Tointon Academy of Pre-EngineeringElementary · 1,127 students
Other schools in GREELEY
- Greeley West High SchoolHigh · 1,936 students
- University SchoolsCombined · 1,784 students
- Greeley Central High SchoolHigh · 1,507 students
- Frontier Charter AcademyCombined · 1,432 students
- Northridge High SchoolHigh · 1,322 students
- Tointon Academy of Pre-EngineeringElementary · 1,127 students
Nearby schools
- Early College Academy0.7 mi · 293
- Shawsheen Elementary School1.0 mi · 405
- West Ridge Academy1.4 mi · 329
- Northridge High School1.4 mi · 1,322
- Winograd K-8 Elementary School1.5 mi · 691
- Union Colony Preparatory School1.5 mi · 333
Frequently asked questions
About S. Christa McAuliffe STEM AcademyWhat is the total enrollment at S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy?
S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy enrolls approximately 932 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy serve?
S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy serves grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy?
The student-to-teacher ratio at S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy is approximately 19.0:1 (49 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy?
At S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy, the student body is approximately 44% White, 49% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy public or private?
S. Christa McAuliffe STEM Academy is a public K-12 school, overseen by Greeley-Evans School District 6.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.