Summary:
Zip code 80925 contains just one public elementary option—Grand Mountain School, a large PK-8 campus serving 1,044 students in School District No. 3. This is the only school in the data set, so all findings below focus on this single campus, which is located in a growing area with a moderate level of economic need, as roughly 32% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Grand Mountain School is a mixed story for parents. The strongest area is English Language Arts, where the all-grades proficiency rate of 43.5% lands almost exactly at the state average of 44.7%. Certain grade levels are genuine bright spots: 5th graders post a 55.8% ELA proficiency rate, well above the state's 49.9%, and 4th graders also beat both district and state averages. In contrast, math is a serious and consistent weakness. Only 21.1% of students are proficient in math, compared with 37.3% statewide—a gap of about 16 points. Every single grade level falls below both district and state math averages, with 6th grade the lowest at just 15.5% proficiency, meaning roughly one in six students is on track. The school also holds a 2-star rating and ranks in the 39th percentile statewide, which is notably weaker than its district, since School District No. 3 earns 3 stars and sits in the 60th percentile.
Other factors worth noting include a chronic absenteeism rate of 27.0%, which is high in absolute terms but actually better than both district and state averages, and a very low dropout rate of 1.1%. Science results are highly variable: 5th grade science is below average, while 8th grade science fell dramatically from 41.4% to 24.8% in one year. For families in this ZIP code, Grand Mountain is the primary public elementary option, and it offers solid reading performance in several grades, but the persistent math gap is the key challenge the school will need to address to improve its overall rating.
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