Silver Creek Elementary
Thornton, CO · Elementary School
Silver Creek Elementary is a elementary school in Thornton, CO with 565 students enrolled and a 65% proficiency rate. Part of Adams 12 Five Star Schools. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Silver Creek Elementary is a elementary school located in Thornton, Colorado. The school serves 565 students. The student-to-teacher ratio is 18.2:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 65% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
16% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Silver Creek Elementary is part of the Adams 12 Five Star Schools in Colorado.
How This School Compares
Silver Creek Elementary has 565 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Adams 12 Five Star Schools (650 students). Its 65% proficiency rate is 15 percentage points above the district average of 49%. Compared to the Colorado state average of 51%, the school performs 13 points higher.
Frequently Asked Questions
Silver Creek Elementary has 565 students enrolled. The student-to-teacher ratio is 18.2:1.
According to EDFacts data, 65% of students at Silver Creek Elementary meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Silver Creek Elementary is part of the Adams 12 Five Star Schools in Thornton, Colorado. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.