Best Public Schools in Platteville, CO

The city of Platteville, Colorado is home to two schools: Platteville Elementary School and South Valley Middle School. Both schools have consistently ranked in the bottom third of their respective school types in Colorado, indicating significant challenges in providing quality education to their students.

Platteville Elementary School has consistently low performance on CMAS (Colorado Measures of Academic Success) tests, with proficiency rates ranging from 10.4% to 29.3% in English Language Arts and 12.2% to 21.4% in Math. The school also has a high chronic absenteeism rate of 27.7%, which likely contributes to the low academic performance. Similarly, South Valley Middle School has CMAS proficiency rates ranging from 13.1% to 35.9% in English Language Arts and 6.8% to 25.6% in Math, also well below state and district averages. The middle school shares the same high chronic absenteeism rate of 27.7%.

Both schools serve a high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, with Platteville Elementary School at 64.29% and South Valley Middle School at 53.66%, suggesting that socioeconomic factors may be contributing to the low academic performance. Additionally, the schools are part of the Weld County Reorganized School District No. Re-1, which is ranked 89 out of 115 districts in Colorado and has a 1-star rating, indicating that district-level factors may also be impacting the schools' struggles.