Enrollment
293
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. R-1·NCES 080480000699
Belmar School of Integrated Arts
885 SOUTH GARRISON STREET, LAKEWOOD, CO 80226 · (303) 982-8220 · Jefferson County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL293 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 24% of Colorado public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
16.1:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
143 students
DISTRICT 35% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 39 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 53 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 59 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 42 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (39) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (49).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
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CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
37.8%
CO avg 44.9% . -2.2pp since 2023
Math
27.8%
CO avg 36.1% . +3.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.8% | 27.8% |
| 2023-24 | 40.0% | 24.4% |
% 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
30.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.1%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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 Belmar School of Integrated Arts
Belmar School of Integrated Arts's state test result (30.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belmar School of Integrated Arts this school | 293 | 48.8% | 30.0% |
| Frontier Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 262 | 48.1% | 36.3% |
| Hoff Elementary School KEENESBURG | 338 | 48.5% | 36.8% |
| Centennial Academy of Fine Arts Education LITTLETON | 334 | 44.6% | 33.0% |
| Pioneer Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 382 | 48.4% | 52.3% |
| South Ridge Elementary An IB World School CASTLE ROCK | 371 | 53.1% | 33.8% |
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 Belmar School of Integrated Arts ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.0% | #582 of 931 | #65 of 82 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.8% | #577 of 940 ▲ 36 | #66 of 85 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.8% | #533 of 946 ▼ 31 | #65 of 85 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 293 | #733 of 1,056 | #70 of 89 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.1:1 | #556 of 896 | #50 of 86 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.6% | #214 of 896 | #11 of 86 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.8% | #490 of 983 | #21 of 85 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.4% | #509 of 664 | #50 of 62 |
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
293
+67 (+30%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 417
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 293 | 18.2 | 16.1:1 | 49% (143) |
| 2023-24 | 322 | 20.4 | 15.8:1 | 54% (173) |
| 2022-23 | 215 | 15.2 | 14.1:1 | 54% (117) |
| 2020-21 | 226 | 15 | 15.1:1 | 57% (128) |
| 2017-18 | 320 | 20.7 | 15.5:1 | 60% (191) |
| 2015-16 | 316 | 20 | 15.8:1 | 60% (189) |
| 2010-11 | 360 | 22 | 16.4:1 | 48% (171) |
| 2000-01 | 371 | 20 | 18.6:1 | 21% (79) |
| 1990-91 | 417 | 17 | 24.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Belmar School of Integrated Arts.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (320 to 293); teachers down 12% (20.7 to 18.2).
About Belmar School of Integrated Arts
Among the schools in LAKEWOOD, Colorado, is Belmar School of Integrated Arts, a small elementary school. It offers kindergarten through 5 and has 293 students enrolled. That is 23% below the average of about 379 students for elementary schools in Colorado.
Enrollment across the 148 schools in Jefferson County School District No. R-1 totals 74,935 students.
The student body at Belmar School of Integrated Arts has no majority group. White students lead at 49%. Other groups include 40% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% Black. The county population is about 80% White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 60%.
Belmar School of Integrated Arts has a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.1:1, with 18.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among elementary schools in Colorado is similar, at 16.6:1. The school has 49% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Jefferson County report 32%.
Belmar School of Integrated Arts holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 24% of Colorado public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Belmar School of Integrated Arts is 7.1 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Colorado schools.
In Jefferson County, the median household earns about $110,656 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 52%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Across Jefferson County, 168 public schools serve about 74,739 students.
Belmar School of Integrated Arts is about 0.6 miles from Patterson International School, its nearest public school. Belmar School of Integrated Arts has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 44.0% on proficiency, and Belmar School of Integrated Arts is below that at 30.0%.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased from 226 to 293, a 30% rise. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (16.1:1) than in 2020-21 (15.1:1).
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Jefferson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,377
Census ACS
Median income
$110,656
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
52%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
168
74,739 students
Quick facts
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Other schools in Jefferson County School District No. R-1
- Arvada West High SchoolHigh · 1,923 students
- Ralston Valley Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,875 students
- Chatfield High SchoolHigh · 1,808 students
- Lakewood High SchoolHigh · 1,735 students
- Columbine High SchoolHigh · 1,710 students
- Golden High SchoolHigh · 1,469 students
Other schools in LAKEWOOD
- Lakewood High SchoolHigh · 1,735 students
- Bear Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,344 students
- Green Mountain High SchoolHigh · 1,071 students
- Alameda International Junior/Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,002 students
- Bear Creek K-8 SchoolElementary · 863 students
- Dunstan Middle SchoolMiddle · 798 students
Nearby schools
- Patterson International School0.6 mi · 346
- Kendrick Lakes Elementary School0.7 mi · 443
- Alameda International Junior/Senior High School1.0 mi · 1,002
- Creighton Middle School1.1 mi · 741
- South Lakewood Elementary School1.3 mi · 393
- Miller Special Education1.3 mi · 97
Frequently asked questions
About Belmar School of Integrated ArtsWhat is the total enrollment at Belmar School of Integrated Arts?
Belmar School of Integrated Arts enrolls approximately 293 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Belmar School of Integrated Arts serve?
Belmar School of Integrated Arts serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Belmar School of Integrated Arts?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Belmar School of Integrated Arts is approximately 16.1:1 (18 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Belmar School of Integrated Arts?
At Belmar School of Integrated Arts, the student body is approximately 49% White, 40% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Belmar School of Integrated Arts in?
Belmar School of Integrated Arts is part of Jefferson County School District No. R-1.
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