Public school / Primary / Charter
The Juniper School
Durango, Colorado
- NCES ID
- 080348006712
- District
- Durango School District No. 9-R
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
The Juniper School is a public primary school in Durango, Colorado, run by Durango School District No. 9-R. It enrols 162 students — the 81692nd 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
162
Teachers
11.0
Students per teacher
14.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
25.9%
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 Durango School District No. 9-R
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.
- 1Durango High School1,369 students
- 2Colorado Connections Academy @ Durango964 students
- 3Escalante Middle School534 students
- 4Riverview Elementary School439 students
- 5Park Elementary School425 students
- 6Miller Middle School415 students
- 7Needham Elementary School388 students
- 8Florida Mesa Elementary School278 students
- Enrollment−56.0%
- Teachers−54.2%
- Students per teacher−8.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−41.4%
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