Arrowhead Elementary School

Arrowhead Elementary School, a reasonably sized primary school in AURORA, Colorado, operated by Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah, caters to 499 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Arrowhead Elementary School sits 32% bigger than that benchmark.

Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah comprises 70 schools with combined enrollment of 52,099 students; Arrowhead Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Arrowhead Elementary School shows that 35% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 30% White, 16% Black, 13% multiracial, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 22% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Arrowhead Elementary School reports 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Arrowhead Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.9%, the actual is 22.4%, a residual of -11.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Arapahoe County put median household earnings sit near $101,087, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Arapahoe County runs 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students), of which Arrowhead Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Vassar Elementary School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Arrowhead Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 25.2%.

Arrowhead Elementary School operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 15%: 585 students in 2018 compared to 499 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 44% to 30%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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