Thunder Valley PK-8

Thunder Valley PK-8 is an elementary campus of large scale in FREDERICK, Colorado, one of the schools within St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J, works with 880 students in grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 132% larger than the state mean of about 379.

St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J runs 54 schools in total, collectively educating 31,607 students. Thunder Valley PK-8 is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Thunder Valley PK-8 shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 32% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Weld County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Weld County (around 47%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Thunder Valley PK-8 tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 18.0%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Weld County put the typical household earns roughly $97,097 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Weld County runs 116 public schools (combined enrollment of about 61,274 students), of which Thunder Valley PK-8 is one.

Nearest neighbor: Spark! Discovery Preschool, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Thunder Valley PK-8. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Thunder Valley PK-8 ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.4%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Thunder Valley PK-8's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 871 (now 880). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 42% to 32%.

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