📍 600 a Street, Delta, Delta County, 81416
Garnet Mesa Elementary School is a State/Public serving elementary age pupils, located in Delta, Delta County. The school has 488 pupils enrolled. It is part of the Delta County Joint District No. 50 school district. It serves grades K–5 in a small-town setting. The school employs 28.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 17.3:1.
Garnet Mesa Elementary School enrolls 488 students across grades K–5. The student body is 52% male and 48% female. A teaching staff of 28.3 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 17.3:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 61% White, 34% Hispanic or Latino and 3.5% Two or more races.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| White | 299 | 61% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 168 | 34% |
| Two or more races | 17 | 3.5% |
| Asian | 2 | <1% |
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 2 | <1% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
263 of the school's 488 students (54%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Garnet Mesa Elementary School is located in a small-town setting (NCES locale: Town, Distant). The school runs a schoolwide Title I program, which provides federal funding to support students from low-income families.
Garnet Mesa Elementary School is one of 18 schools in Delta County Joint District No. 50, based in DELTA, Colorado. The district serves 4,396 students district-wide and employs 269 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 488 students, Garnet Mesa Elementary School is larger than the district average of about 244 students per school.
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