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Adams 12 Five Star Schools

Thornton, Colorado · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

34,466
Students enrolled
54
Public schools
1,998
Classroom teachers (FTE)
17.3:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 900
  • Kindergarten 2,080
  • Grade 1 2,235
  • Grade 2 2,445
  • Grade 3 2,523
  • Grade 4 2,514
  • Grade 5 2,563
  • Grade 6 2,559
  • Grade 7 2,587
  • Grade 8 2,655
  • Grade 9 2,692
  • Grade 10 2,770
  • Grade 11 2,842
  • Grade 12 3,101

By race/ethnicity

  • Hispanic/Latino 46%
  • White 39%
  • Asian 7%
  • Two or more races 5%
  • Black or African American 2%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%
  • Race not reported <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

50% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 16,872 of 33,924 students in the 52 of its 54 schools that report
  • Free lunch 43%
  • Reduced-price lunch 7%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$15,831 spent per student on day-to-day operations Colorado median: $16,685 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $8,555
  • Support services $6,656
  • Other (food service, etc.) $620

Where the money comes from

  • Local 48%
  • State 44%
  • Federal 8%

Total revenue $679.5 milliontotal spending $607.7 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Suburb: LargeStudents: 76% suburb, 20% city, 5% rural

Total staff (FTE)

4,630

District office

1500 E 128TH AVENUE, Thornton CO 80241

County

Adams County

Official website

NCES District ID

806900

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About Adams 12 Five Star Schools

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

Mission To engage and inspire all students to innovate, achieve, and succeed in a safe and supportive environment by ensuring high quality instruction in every classroom, every day.
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