Arrowwood Elementary School

Arrowwood Elementary School is one of the mid-tier elementary-level communitys in HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colorado, one of the schools within Douglas County School District No. Re 1, with 390 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6.

Arrowwood Elementary School is one of 89 schools operated by Douglas County School District No. Re 1, a district that instructs 61,550 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Arrowwood Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 21% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian. By comparison, Douglas County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Arrowwood Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.2%, the actual is 50.4%, a residual of -2.8 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Douglas County put the typical household earns roughly $149,594 per year, about 62% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Arrowwood Elementary School is one of 92 public schools in Douglas County (combined enrollment of about 63,841 students).

Heritage Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Arrowwood Elementary School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 63.4%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 384 students in 2018 compared to 390 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

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