Public school / Primary
Rice Elementary School
Wellington, Colorado
- NCES ID
- 080399006315
- District
- Poudre School District R-1
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Rice Elementary School is a public primary school in Wellington, Colorado, run by Poudre School District R-1. It enrols 455 students — the 43166th 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
455
Teachers
33.0
Students per teacher
13.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
30.8%
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 Poudre School District R-1
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.
- 1Rocky Mountain High School2,069 students
- 2Fossil Ridge High School2,053 students
- 3Fort Collins High School1,903 students
- 4Poudre High School1,663 students
- 5Liberty Common Charter School1,359 students
- 6Timnath Middle-High School1,024 students
- 7Wellington Middle-High School857 students
- 8Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School748 students
- Enrollment+23.6%
- Teachers+37.5%
- Students per teacher−13.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−30.3%
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