Arvada K-8

Arvada K-8 is an elementary campus of reasonably sized scale in ARVADA, Colorado, operated by Jefferson County School District No. R-1, serveing 541 students in grades K through 8. That puts it 43% above the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Jefferson County School District No. R-1 runs 148 schools in total, collectively educating 74,935 students. Arvada K-8 is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Arvada K-8 records that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 28% White, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Arvada K-8 logs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Arvada K-8 tighter than the state norm the norm. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Jefferson County's rate of about 32%.

With demographic context factored in, Arvada K-8 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.0%, the actual is 14.5%, a residual of -2.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Jefferson County shows median household earnings sit near $110,656, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jefferson County's 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students), Arvada K-8 is one campus in the mix.

Lawrence Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Arvada K-8. On composite proficiency, Arvada K-8 comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 31.3%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at Arvada K-8 has shrank 12%, going from 615 students in 2018 to 541 in 2024. White enrollment moved from 33% to 28% across the same window.

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