Beech Street Preschool

Beech Street Preschool operates as a very small elementary campus in CORTEZ, Colorado, operated by Montezuma-Cortez School District No. Re-1. Current enrollment sits at 70 students spanning grade pre-K. Enrollment runs roughly 82% leaner than the state mean of about 379.

Across the 10 schools in Montezuma-Cortez School District No. Re-1 (2,380 students total), Beech Street Preschool accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Beech Street Preschool records that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 10% Native American, 7% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

Looking at school resources, About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Montezuma County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $65,244 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Montezuma County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,620 students), Beech Street Preschool is one campus in the mix.

Kemper Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Beech Street Preschool.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Beech Street Preschool has fell 29%, going from 98 students in 2018 to 70 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 19% to 26%.

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