Public school / Primary
Explore Pk-8
Thornton, Colorado
- NCES ID
- 080555002007
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Explore Pk-8 is a public primary school in Thornton, Colorado, run by Mapleton School District No. 1 in the County of Adams & St. It enrols 556 students — the 30968th 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
556
Teachers
27.0
Students per teacher
20.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
60.4%
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 Mapleton School District No. 1 in the County of Adams & St
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.
- 1York International817 students
- 2Explore Pk-8556 students
- 3Trailside Academy496 students
- 4Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts478 students
- 5Monterey Community School429 students
- 6Academy High School420 students
- 7Clayton Partnership School410 students
- 8Achieve Academy384 students
- Enrollment+51.1%
- Teachers+12.5%
- Students per teacher+28.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+36.7%
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