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Enrollment
844
Elementary
DISTRICT 352 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BOULDER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. RE2·NCES 080249001758
Aspen Creek K-8 School
5500 ASPEN CREEK DRIVE, BROOMFIELD, CO 80020 · (720) 561-8000 · Broomfield County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL844 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 71% of Colorado public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
211 students
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 30 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 70 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 7% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 138 | 16% |
| Grade 7 | 115 | 14% |
| Grade 8 | 118 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 41% smaller than its 8th grade class (118).
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
65.2%
CO avg 44.9% . +2.8pp since 2023
Math
47.1%
CO avg 36.1% . -1.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.2% | 47.1% |
| 2023-24 | 62.4% | 48.9% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
55.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.6%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Aspen Creek K-8 School
Aspen Creek K-8 School's state test result (55.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aspen Creek K-8 School this school | 844 | 25.0% | 55.2% |
| Mead Elementary School MEAD | 879 | 27.1% | 59.3% |
| Jefferson Academy Elementary BROOMFIELD | 737 | 17.6% | 58.8% |
| Pine Lane Elementary PARKER | 744 | 32.4% | 51.4% |
| Bear Creek Elementary School MONUMENT | 869 | 20.4% | 58.4% |
| STEM Lab NORTHGLENN | 740 | 30.9% | 56.8% |
Matched among Colorado elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Aspen Creek K-8 School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Broomfield County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.2% | #213 of 931 | #5 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.1% | #300 of 940 ▼ 42 | #6 of 9 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.2% | #132 of 946 ▲ 44 | #4 of 9 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 844 | #29 of 1,056 | #1 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.0:1 | #771 of 896 | #9 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.5% | #556 of 896 | #8 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.0% | #762 of 983 | #6 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.5% | #465 of 664 | #7 of 8 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
844
+108 (+15%) vs 2020
+18% since 2000-01, when it was 713
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
was 16.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 844 | 46.8 | 18.0:1 | 25% (211) |
| 2023-24 | 770 | 47.4 | 16.2:1 | 27% (208) |
| 2022-23 | 748 | 45.5 | 16.4:1 | 21% (154) |
| 2020-21 | 736 | 44 | 16.7:1 | 17% (126) |
| 2017-18 | 943 | 50.9 | 18.5:1 | 14% (130) |
| 2015-16 | 947 | 47 | 20.1:1 | 16% (150) |
| 2010-11 | 916 | 49 | 18.7:1 | 9% (81) |
| 2000-01 | 713 | 37 | 19.3:1 | 5% (35) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Aspen Creek K-8 School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (943 to 844); teachers down 8% (50.9 to 46.8).
About Aspen Creek K-8 School
Aspen Creek K-8 School is an elementary school located in BROOMFIELD, Colorado, in Broomfield County. Classes run from pre-K through 8, and the school has 844 students. Against the 379-student average for elementary schools in Colorado, enrollment here is 123% higher.
Boulder Valley School District No. Re2 has a total of 56 schools and 27,988 students, Aspen Creek K-8 School among them.
At Aspen Creek K-8 School, White students make up 71% of the student body. The school is also 17% Hispanic, 5% Asian, and 5% multiracial. The school's diversity index is 45%, meaning two students picked at random have a 45% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school has about 18.0 students per teacher and 46.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 1.5 above the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 25%. That tracks the 24% average for public schools in Broomfield County.
allk12 grades Aspen Creek K-8 School a B+. The grade compares the school only with Colorado public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 51.6% for Aspen Creek K-8 School. The school posts 55.2%, 3.6 points above the prediction.
In the county around the school, Broomfield County, the median household income is $123,874, roughly 60% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 16 public schools in Broomfield County, enrolling about 11,844 students in all.
Coyote Ridge Elementary School is located about 0.6 miles from Aspen Creek K-8 School. The five-mile area around Aspen Creek K-8 School holds at least 8 other public schools. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Aspen Creek K-8 School ranks 4th on proficiency.
The NCES locale for Aspen Creek K-8 School is City: Small, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment is up 15% from 2020-21, when Aspen Creek K-8 School had 736 students, to 2024-25, when it had 844. The ratio of students to teachers went from 16.7:1 to 18.0:1 over the same years.
Questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Broomfield County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
76,304
Census ACS
Median income
$123,874
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
60%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
16
11,844 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Boulder Valley School District No. Re2
- Boulder High SchoolHigh · 1,939 students
- Fairview High SchoolHigh · 1,863 students
- Broomfield High SchoolHigh · 1,693 students
- Centaurus High SchoolHigh · 1,557 students
- Peak to Peak Charter SchoolCombined · 1,447 students
- Monarch High SchoolHigh · 1,431 students
Other schools in BROOMFIELD
- Legacy High SchoolHigh · 2,052 students
- Broomfield High SchoolHigh · 1,693 students
- Prospect Ridge AcademyCombined · 1,478 students
- Westlake Middle SchoolMiddle · 853 students
- Jefferson Academy ElementaryElementary · 737 students
- Thunder Vista P-8Elementary · 725 students
Nearby schools
- Coyote Ridge Elementary School0.6 mi · 392
- Birch Elementary School1.1 mi · 299
- Broomfield Heights Middle School1.3 mi · 490
- Broomfield High School1.5 mi · 1,693
- Mountain View Elementary School1.9 mi · 517
- Kohl Elementary School1.9 mi · 273
Frequently asked questions
About Aspen Creek K-8 SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Aspen Creek K-8 School?
Aspen Creek K-8 School enrolls approximately 844 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Aspen Creek K-8 School serve?
Aspen Creek K-8 School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Aspen Creek K-8 School?
Approximately 18.0:1 students per teacher at Aspen Creek K-8 School.
How diverse is Aspen Creek K-8 School?
Aspen Creek K-8 School reports a student body of 71% White, 17% Hispanic, 1% Black, 5% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Aspen Creek K-8 School public or private?
Aspen Creek K-8 School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Boulder Valley School District No. Re2.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.