Alice Terry Elementary School

Alice Terry Elementary School is one of the close-knit primary schools in ENGLEWOOD, Colorado, overseen by Sheridan School District No. 2, with 167 students on its rolls from grades K through 2. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Alice Terry Elementary School sits 56% below that benchmark.

Across the 5 schools in Sheridan School District No. 2 (1,018 students total), Alice Terry Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Alice Terry Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 76% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 16% White, 3% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Alice Terry Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Arapahoe County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Arapahoe County indicate the typical household earns roughly $101,087 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Arapahoe County's 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students), Alice Terry Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SOAR Academy, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Alice Terry Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 36% since 2018, when it stood at 260 (now 167). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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