Public school / Primary
Cotton Creek Elementary School
Westminster, Colorado
- NCES ID
- 080690001305
- District
- Adams 12 Five Star Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Cotton Creek Elementary School is a public primary school in Westminster, Colorado, run by Adams 12 Five Star Schools. It enrols 473 students — the 40714th 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
473
Teachers
31.0
Students per teacher
15.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
29.4%
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 Adams 12 Five Star Schools
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.
- 1Legacy High School2,230 students
- 2Horizon High School2,026 students
- 3Northglenn High School1,959 students
- 4Mountain Range High School1,761 students
- 5Stargate Charter School1,551 students
- 6Prospect Ridge Academy1,453 students
- 7Thornton High School1,412 students
- 8Rocky Top Middle School1,001 students
- Enrollment+28.5%
- Teachers+29.2%
- Students per teacher−4.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−33.5%
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