Enrollment
246
Elementary
DISTRICT 328 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·THOMPSON SCHOOL DISTRICT R-2J·NCES 080540000942
Winona Elementary School
201 SOUTH BOISE AVENUE, LOVELAND, CO 80537 · (970) 613-7100 · Larimer County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL246 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 16% of Colorado public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
14.6:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
145 students
DISTRICT 37% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 32 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 31 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 36 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 21 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 39 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (31) is 30% smaller than its 5th grade class (44).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · 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
27.0%
CO avg 44.9% . -3.1pp since 2023
Math
24.8%
CO avg 36.1% . +4.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.0% | 24.8% |
| 2023-24 | 30.1% | 20.2% |
% 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
24.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.0%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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 Winona Elementary School
Winona Elementary School's state test result (24.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winona Elementary School this school | 246 | 58.9% | 24.2% |
| Sedalia Elementary School SEDALIA | 212 | 58.5% | 32.8% |
| Sanborn Elementary School LONGMONT | 209 | 62.7% | 37.5% |
| Laurene Edmondson Elementary School LOVELAND | 235 | 63.8% | 25.8% |
| Holyoke Elementary School HOLYOKE | 281 | 63.3% | 22.4% |
| High Plains Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 248 | 56.5% | 33.7% |
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 Winona Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Larimer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.2% | #693 of 931 | #50 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.8% | #626 of 940 ▲ 65 | #48 of 53 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #702 of 946 ▼ 51 | #48 of 53 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 246 | #840 of 1,056 | #44 of 56 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #304 of 896 | #24 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.9% | #228 of 896 | #3 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.9% | #383 of 983 | #7 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.5% | #117 of 664 | #4 of 41 |
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
246
-45 (-15%) vs 2020
-27% since 1990-91, when it was 339
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 16.2:1
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 | 246 | 16.8 | 14.6:1 | 59% (145) |
| 2023-24 | 250 | 17.1 | 14.7:1 | 70% (176) |
| 2022-23 | 250 | 19.8 | 12.6:1 | 68% (170) |
| 2020-21 | 291 | 18 | 16.2:1 | 58% (169) |
| 2017-18 | 349 | 22.3 | 15.6:1 | 66% (229) |
| 2015-16 | 442 | 28 | 15.8:1 | 57% (254) |
| 2010-11 | 440 | 27 | 16.3:1 | 62% (272) |
| 2000-01 | 273 | 18 | 15.2:1 | 57% (155) |
| 1990-91 | 339 | 14 | 24.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Winona Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (349 to 246); teachers down 25% (22.3 to 16.8).
About Winona Elementary School
The public elementary school Winona Elementary School is located in LOVELAND, Colorado. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 246 students. Elementary schools in Colorado average about 379 students, which makes this school 35% below average.
Winona Elementary School is one school in Thompson School District R-2J, a system of 32 schools with 14,580 students.
No group is above 50% at Winona Elementary School; the largest is White, at 48%. The rest of enrollment is 43% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black, and 2% Native American. Among all residents of Larimer County, the White share is about 82%. The diversity index for Winona Elementary School is 59%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Classroom staffing at Winona Elementary School totals 16.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.6:1. The average for elementary schools in Colorado is 16.6:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Winona Elementary School is about 59%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Larimer County is 35%.
On the allk12 Grade, Winona Elementary School lands at C-, ahead of 16% of Colorado public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Winona Elementary School is 6.8 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Colorado schools.
The school is in Larimer County, where the median household earns about $93,765 a year, about 53% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Across Larimer County, 94 public schools serve about 47,159 students.
Of the public schools around it, Winona Elementary School is closest to New Vision Charter School, about 0.5 miles away. Winona Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Winona Elementary School at 7th of 9.
Winona Elementary School falls in the City: Small locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The school's enrollment fell 15% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (14.6:1) than in 2020-21 (16.2:1).
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Larimer County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
367,368
Census ACS
Median income
$93,765
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
94
47,159 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Thompson School District R-2J
- Loveland High SchoolHigh · 1,354 students
- Mountain View High SchoolHigh · 1,074 students
- Loveland Classical SchoolCombined · 1,032 students
- New Vision Charter SchoolElementary · 1,005 students
- Thompson Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,005 students
- Riverview PK-8Elementary · 757 students
Other schools in LOVELAND
- Loveland High SchoolHigh · 1,354 students
- Mountain View High SchoolHigh · 1,074 students
- Loveland Classical SchoolCombined · 1,032 students
- New Vision Charter SchoolElementary · 1,005 students
- Thompson Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,005 students
- Lucile Erwin Middle SchoolMiddle · 686 students
Other Winona Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Winona Elementary. Winona Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 5.
- Winona Elementary SchoolWINONA, TX · 582 students
- Winona Elementary SchoolWinona, MS · 567 students
- WINONA ELEM.WINONA, MO · 306 students
- Winona ElemWinona, KS · 58 students
Nearby schools
- New Vision Charter School0.5 mi · 1,005
- Truscott Elementary School1.4 mi · 194
- Bill Reed Middle School1.4 mi · 530
- Garfield Elementary School1.8 mi · 213
- Mountain View High School1.8 mi · 1,074
- Peakview Academy at Conrad Ball2.1 mi · 536
Frequently asked questions
About Winona Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Winona Elementary School?
Winona Elementary School enrolls approximately 246 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Winona Elementary School serve?
Winona Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Winona Elementary School have?
Winona Elementary School employs 17 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Winona Elementary School?
Student demographics at Winona Elementary School are roughly 48% White, 43% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Winona Elementary School in?
Winona Elementary School is part of Thompson School District R-2J.
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