Public school / Primary
Vista Peak P-8 Exploratory
Aurora, Colorado
- NCES ID
- 080234006483
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Vista Peak P-8 Exploratory is a public primary school in Aurora, Colorado, run by Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the Counties of Adams and A. It enrols 1,037 students — the 8015th 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
1,037
Teachers
50.0
Students per teacher
20.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
48.3%
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 Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the Counties of Adams and A
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.
- 1Aurora Central Campus2,084 students
- 2Rangeview High School2,051 students
- 3Vista Peak 9-12 Preparatory1,795 students
- 4Hinkley High School1,687 students
- 5Gateway High School1,564 students
- 6Vista Peak P-8 Exploratory1,037 students
- 7Aurora West College Preparatory Academy1,033 students
- 8Edna and John W. Mosley P-81,018 students
- Enrollment+181.8%
- Teachers+108.3%
- Students per teacher+29.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+9.3%
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