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Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 8

Foundations Academy, Brighton, CO

Charter schoolCEP schoolFoundations Academy is a public elementary school in Brighton, part of School District 27J. It enrolled 763 students in 2024-25, with 50.9 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
763
Teachers (FTE)
15.0
Students per teacher
50.9
Grades
K to 8

This school's ratio is 31.4 higher than the district figure of 19.5. The Colorado average across schools is 16.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school50.9
District19.5
Colorado16.7
United States15.3

School details

Address
340 South 45th Avenue, Brighton, CO 80601
Phone
(303)659-9519
District
School District 27J
County
Adams County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
Yes
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
080258006465
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
244
Reduced-price lunch
32
Free or reduced-price lunch
27636.2% 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 School District 27J

Elementary schools elsewhere in Brighton

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.