Adams Elementary School

Located at 6450 WEST 95TH PLACE, in WESTMINSTER, Colorado, Adams Elementary School is a tight-knit elementary-level community that instructs 310 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Jefferson County School District No. R-1.

Adams Elementary School is one of 148 schools operated by Jefferson County School District No. R-1, a district that hosts 74,935 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Adams Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 35% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Jefferson County (around 32%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Adams Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Colorado public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 41.3%; Adams Elementary School posts 27.1%, -14.2 points below that line.

Around the school, Jefferson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $110,656 per year, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Jefferson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students), of which Adams Elementary School is one.

Mandalay Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Adams Elementary School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 37.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Adams Elementary School has fell 31%, going from 449 students in 2018 to 310 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 66% to 50%.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.