About Adams 12 Five Star Schools
Adams 12 Five Star Schools is a public school system serving Adams County, Colorado, based in Thornton. It serves 34,466 students across 54 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a suburb: large district. By enrollment it is the #6 largest of Colorado’s 185 school systems.
Size and structure
Adams 12 Five Star Schools enrolls 34,466 students in 54 schools — an average of about 638 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #6 of 185 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Adams 12 Five Star Schools, from the NCES Common Core of Data (34,466 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Adams 12 Five Star Schools employs about 1,998 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 17.2:1 — above the Colorado average of about 16.2:1. Total district staff is roughly 4,630.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Colorado funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Adams 12 Five Star Schools are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Colorado rates districts and schools through its District and School Performance Frameworks (DPF/SPF), measuring academic achievement, academic growth and postsecondary and workforce readiness, and assigns each a performance rating. Look up Adams 12 Five Star Schools on the state’s SchoolView frameworks.
Accreditation status
Colorado accredits its own public-school districts: the State Board of Education annually accredits each district from its performance-framework results, and districts in turn accredit their own schools (C.R.S. Title 22, Article 11). See the state’s district accreditation page.
Adams 12 Five Star Schools vs. Colorado
See every Colorado district side by side in the Colorado directory.
Look up Adams 12 Five Star Schools’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):