Rocky Mountain Elementary School - Clifton

Rocky Mountain Elementary serves Clifton families from preschool through fifth grade as part of Mesa County Valley School District 51. Our school-wide expectations are summed up in R.I.S.E.: Relationships, Integrity, Safe, Everyone Every Day.

Our special services team is unusually broad for a neighborhood school. Resource teachers, a moderate needs teacher and our SOAR program support students with IEPs, and speech-language pathologists, an SLP assistant, occupational and physical therapists, school psychologists, a vision specialist and an adaptive P.E. teacher round out the team. Our preschool includes early childhood special education with speech-language support. Intervention teachers, counselors, culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) teachers, a gifted and talented teacher and an instructional coach work alongside classroom teachers.

Our Family Center coordinator connects families with workshops and community resources, and the school runs a monthly food assistance program along with help finding housing, health insurance and scholarships for extracurricular activities. Students also take music, including modern band, along with P.E. and science and technology classes.