Agate Elementary School

Agate Elementary School operates as a minimally staffed K-5 school in AGATE, Colorado, operated by Agate School District No. 300. Current enrollment sits at 53 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Agate Elementary School sits 86% leaner than that benchmark.

Agate School District No. 300 runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 85 students. Agate Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Agate Elementary School records that 64% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 30% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Agate Elementary School has 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Elbert County's rate of about 32%.

In the surrounding community, Elbert County reports that median household earnings sit near $132,685, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Elbert County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,265 students), Agate Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Agate Junior Senior High School, roughly 0.0 miles away.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 1225%: 4 students in 2018 compared to 53 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 75% to 30%. Class-load math has loosened: from 1.9:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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