Birch Elementary School

Birch Elementary School, a close-knit elementary campus in BROOMFIELD, Colorado, one of the schools within Boulder Valley School District No. Re2, hosts 299 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Birch Elementary School sits 21% smaller than that benchmark.

Boulder Valley School District No. Re2 runs 56 schools in total, collectively educating 27,988 students. Birch Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Birch Elementary School reports that White students make up the majority at 65%; the rest consists of 24% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Birch Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 37% of students at Birch Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Broomfield County runs at roughly 24%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Birch Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.0%; this one delivers 53.7%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Broomfield County indicate median household income runs about $123,874, 60% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Broomfield County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,844 students), Birch Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Broomfield High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Birch Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Birch Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 52.3%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Birch Elementary School has fell 29%, going from 420 students in 2018 to 299 in 2025.

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