Belle Creek Charter School

Belle Creek Charter School is one of the middle-of-the-pack K-5 schools in HENDERSON, Colorado, overseen by School District 27J, with 519 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 379 students per school, that is 37% above typical.

School District 27J runs 33 schools in total, collectively educating 24,044 students. Belle Creek Charter School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Belle Creek Charter School shows that 66% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 20% White, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Adams County as a whole is about 43% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 68.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Belle Creek Charter School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.2%; this one delivers 26.2%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Adams County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $94,571 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Adams County runs 171 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students), of which Belle Creek Charter School is one.

John W Thimmig Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Belle Creek Charter School. On composite proficiency, Belle Creek Charter School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 23.6%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. As a public charter, Belle Creek Charter School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Belle Creek Charter School has decreased 22%, going from 662 students in 2018 to 519 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 41% to 20% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 44.8:1 in 2018 to 68.1:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Belle Creek Charter School community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.