Turnberry Elementary

Turnberry Elementary is a sprawling primary school in COMMERCE CITY, Colorado, operated by School District 27J. The school educates 742 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 379 students per school, that is 96% above typical.

Across the 33 schools in School District 27J (24,044 students total), Turnberry Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Turnberry Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 54%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 33% White, 5% Asian, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Adams County as a whole is about 43% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 51% of students at Turnberry Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Adams County (around 62%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Turnberry Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Colorado public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.5%; Turnberry Elementary posts 23.1%, -12.4 points below that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Adams County put the typical household earns roughly $94,571 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Adams County runs 171 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students), of which Turnberry Elementary is one.

John W Thimmig Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Turnberry Elementary. On composite proficiency, Turnberry Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 24.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 733 students in 2018 compared to 742 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 48% to 33% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 in 2025.

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