Aspen Ridge Preparatory School

Aspen Ridge Preparatory School, a large K-5 school in ERIE, Colorado, overseen by St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J, hosts 581 students, covering grades K through 8. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Aspen Ridge Preparatory School sits 53% above that benchmark.

Aspen Ridge Preparatory School is one of 54 schools operated by St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J, a district that teaches 31,607 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Aspen Ridge Preparatory School logs that nearly all students (81%) are White. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Around 11% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Weld County (around 47%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Aspen Ridge Preparatory School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 60.1%; this one comes in at 44.9%, -15.2 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Weld County) shows that median household earnings sit near $97,097, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Aspen Ridge Preparatory School is one of 116 public schools in Weld County (combined enrollment of about 61,274 students).

Nearest neighbor: Red Hawk Elementary, around 1.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Aspen Ridge Preparatory School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 57.2%.

The campus sits in a residential setting. As a public charter, Aspen Ridge Preparatory School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Aspen Ridge Preparatory School has expanded 21%, going from 481 students in 2018 to 581 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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