Elementary · Colorado

Ponderosa Elementary

Free meals for all

Ponderosa Elementary, a public elementary school in Loveland, Colorado: grades pre-k–5, 335 students, 15.7 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Thompson School District R-2J.

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: 335
Teachers (FTE): 21.3
Students per teacher: 15.7
Grades: Pre-K–5; Elementary

More students per teacher than 58% of elementary schools in Colorado

Median 15.1 · 1,025 schools compared

More students per teacher than 62% of elementary schools in the US

Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared

Smaller than 59% of elementary schools in Colorado

Median 370 · 1,025 schools compared

Smaller than 66% 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: Small city
Run by: Thompson School District R-2J

Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Thompson School District R-2J.

Location

Address: 4550 Florence Drive, Loveland, CO 80538
Phone: (970)679-9500
City or town: Loveland
County: Larimer County

Website Quality of life in Loveland Schools in Loveland

Nearby elementary schools

The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.

School	Grades	Students	Students / teacher
Centennial Elementary SchoolFree meals for all	Pre-K–5	324	15.9	1.4 mi
Lincoln Elementary SchoolFree meals for all	Pre-K–5	196	16.0	2.1 mi
Laurene Edmondson Elementary SchoolFree meals for all	Pre-K–5	235	14.7	2.3 mi
Namaqua Elementary SchoolFree meals for all	K–5	236	14.1	3.1 mi
Peakview Academy at Conrad BallFree meals for all	Pre-K–8	536	14.1	3.3 mi
Garfield Elementary SchoolFree meals for all	K–5	213	13.2	3.4 mi

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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