Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5
Cottonwood Elementary School, Montrose, CO
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 394
- Teachers (FTE)
- 23.0
- Students per teacher
- 17.1
- Grades
- K to 5
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 17.0. The Colorado average across schools is 16.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 3500 Woodgate Road, Montrose, CO 81401
- Phone
- (970)249-2539
- County
- Montrose County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Town: Remote
- NCES school ID
- 080579001554
School meals
- Free lunch
- 139
- Reduced-price lunch
- 21
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 16040.6% of enrollment.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Montrose County School District Re-1J
- Johnson Elementary School 531 students
- Olathe Elementary School 424 students
- Oak Grove Elementary School 374 students
- Pomona Elementary School 335 students
- Northside Elementary School 327 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.