Bear Creek Elementary School
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsWhat this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 62% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 24 points, placing it in Colorado's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Bear Creek Elementary School
Located at 2500 TABLE MESA DRIVE, in BOULDER, Colorado, Bear Creek Elementary School is a cozy elementary campus that teaches 318 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Boulder Valley School District No. Re2.
Boulder Valley School District No. Re2 runs 56 schools in total, collectively educating 27,988 students. Bear Creek Elementary School is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Bear Creek Elementary School shows that 75% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 9% multiracial, 8% Asian, 7% Hispanic. Compared to Boulder County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the income-and-resources front, Bear Creek Elementary School logs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 8% of students at Bear Creek Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Boulder County (around 33%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Bear Creek Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Colorado public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 62.1%; Bear Creek Elementary School posts 86.6%, +24.5 points above that line.
Across the wider county, Boulder County reports that median household income runs about $103,994, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Boulder County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,200 students), of which Bear Creek Elementary School is one.
Mesa Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Bear Creek Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 70.4%.
Bear Creek Elementary School operates from a high-density location.
Five-year trend. Bear Creek Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 29% since 2018, when it stood at 448 (now 318). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 today.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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