Elementary · Colorado
Appleton Elementary School
Free meals for allAppleton Elementary School, a public elementary school in Grand Junction, Colorado: grades pre-k–5, 439 students, 18.1 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Mesa County Valley School District No. 51.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 439
- Teachers (FTE)
- 24.3
- Students per teacher
- 18.1
- Grades
- Pre-K–5
- Elementary
More students per teacher than 87% of elementary schools in Colorado
Median 15.1 · 1,025 schools compared
More students per teacher than 80% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Larger than 66% of elementary schools in Colorado
Median 370 · 1,025 schools compared
Larger than 55% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades Pre-K–5
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize suburb
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Mesa County Valley School District No. 51.
Location
- Address
- 2358 H Road, Grand Junction, CO 81505
- Phone
- (970)254-6400
- City or town
- Grand Junction
- County
- Mesa County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Pomona Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 395 | 15.3 |
Broadway Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 300 | 17.5 |
| Pre-K–3 | 40 | 10.0 | |
| K–8 | 375 | 14.8 | |
Scenic Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | K–5 | 243 | 16.3 |
Tope Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 370 | 19.1 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
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NCES 080435000597