Public school / Primary
Avery/Parsons Elementary School
Buena Vista, Colorado
- NCES ID
- 080264000159
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Avery/Parsons Elementary School is a public primary school in Buena Vista, Colorado, run by Buena Vista School District No. R-31. It enrols 435 students — the 45955th largest of 1,965 public schools in Colorado.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
435
Teachers
27.0
Students per teacher
16.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
29.9%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Buena Vista School District No. R-31
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Avery/Parsons Elementary School435 students
- 2Buena Vista High School274 students
- 3Buena Vista Middle School222 students
- 4The Grove Bvsd'S Early Learning Program82 students
- 5Chaffee County High School19 students
- Enrollment+18.2%
- Teachers+12.5%
- Students per teacher+0.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−32.4%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory