{"id":24837,"date":"2024-11-15T10:17:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T17:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/lewis-arriola-elementary-ranked-as-a-u-s-news-best-elementary-school\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:02:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:02:35","slug":"lewis-arriola-elementary-ranked-as-a-u-s-news-best-elementary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/lewis-arriola-elementary-ranked-as-a-u-s-news-best-elementary-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis-Arriola Elementary ranked as a U.S. News Best Elementary School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0c5c0b88-9ed7-49be-aad1-c371ed508268&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1231\" alt=\"On Feb. 14, a vehicle went off U.S. Highway 491 and hit the retaining wall of the playground at Lewis-Arriola Elementary School. Nobody was injured, and a guardrail has since been installed.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">On Feb. 14, a vehicle went off U.S. Highway 491 and hit the retaining wall of the playground at Lewis-Arriola Elementary School. Nobody was injured, and a guardrail has since been installed.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Montezuma-Cortez school district announced that Lewis-Arriola Elementary School was ranked on the U.S. News Best Elementary School for 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The school was ranked No. 259 out of over 1,000 Colorado elementary schools, placing it in the top 40%. It scored 73.62 out of 100 points.<\/p>\n<p>It was also ranked as the No. 1 school in the Montezuma-Cortez school district.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cdistant rural\u201d school, as it was labeled in the report, has 118 students enrolled from kindergarten through fifth grade. The report added that 46% of these students are \u201ceconomically disadvantaged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The student-to-teacher ratio is 16-to-1, and there are eight full-time teachers. The students scored 45%, which is at or above proficiency in math and 55% in reading.<\/p>\n<p>This is higher than both the district and state percentages in these subjects. The district\u2019s scores were recorded as 21% in math and 33% in reading, while the state\u2019s was 30% in math and 41% in reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ranked in the top 40% of Colorado elementary schools<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,155,28,2049,60,216,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-24837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-lewis","tag-montezuma-county","tag-montezuma-cortez-school-district-re-1","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78696,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24837\/revisions\/78696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24837"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=24837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}