Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5
New Emerson School at Columbus, Grand Junction, CO
New Emerson School at Columbus is a public elementary school in Grand Junction, part of Mesa County Valley School District No. 51. It enrolled 138 students in 2024-25, with 15.3 students per full-time teacher.
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 138
- Teachers (FTE)
- 9.0
- Students per teacher
- 15.3
- Grades
- K to 5
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 15.7. The Colorado average across schools is 16.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
This school15.3
District15.7
Colorado16.7
United States15.3
School details
- Address
- 2660 Unaweep Ave, Grand Junction, CO 81503
- Phone
- (970)254-6500
- County
- Mesa County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Small
- NCES school ID
- 080435001552
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Mesa County Valley School District No. 51
- Independence Academy 491 students
- Appleton Elementary School 439 students
- Thunder Mountain Elementary School 432 students
- Pear Park Elementary School 428 students
- Pomona Elementary School 395 students
- Rocky Mountain Elementary School 395 students
- Juniper Ridge Community School 375 students
- Mesa View Elementary School 375 students
- Chatfield Elementary School 371 students
- Shelledy Elementary School 371 students
- Tope Elementary School 370 students
- Chipeta Elementary School 364 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Grand Junction
- Wildflower Montessori Public School of Colorado Grand Valley State Charter School Institute
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.