Thunder Vista P-8

Thunder Vista P-8 operates as a big elementary campus in BROOMFIELD, Colorado, part of Adams 12 Five Star Schools. Current enrollment sits at 725 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 91% bigger than the state mean of about 379.

Adams 12 Five Star Schools runs 54 schools in total, collectively educating 34,466 students. Thunder Vista P-8 is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Thunder Vista P-8 logs that 70% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 6% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Thunder Vista P-8 has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 10% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Broomfield County (around 24%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Thunder Vista P-8 sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.6%; this one delivers 62.7%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Broomfield County shows median household earnings sit near $123,874, roughly 60% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Thunder Vista P-8 is one of 16 public schools in Broomfield County (combined enrollment of about 11,844 students).

The closest other public school is Prospect Ridge Academy, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Thunder Vista P-8. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Thunder Vista P-8 at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 56.4%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

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