Public school / Primary
Southlawn Elementary School
Commerce City, Colorado
- NCES ID
- 080258006857
- District
- School District 27j
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Southlawn Elementary School is a public primary school in Commerce City, Colorado, run by School District 27j. It enrols 440 students — the 45270th 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
440
Teachers
22.0
Students per teacher
20.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
38.6%
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 School District 27j
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.
- 1Brighton High School1,854 students
- 2Prairie View High School1,821 students
- 3Colorado Connections Academy1,728 students
- 4Riverdale Ridge High School1,463 students
- 5Bromley East Charter School1,237 students
- 6Rodger Quist Middle School923 students
- 7West Ridge Elementary827 students
- 8Otho E Stuart Middle School791 students
- Enrollment+19.6%
- Teachers−8.3%
- Students per teacher+25.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−12.7%
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