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Enrollment
500
Elementary
DISTRICT 478 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHERRY CREEK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 080291006544
Black Forest Hills Elementary School
25233 E. GLASGOW DR, AURORA, CO 80016 · (720) 886-8900 · Arapahoe County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL500 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 77% of Colorado public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
15.0:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
18%
90 students
DISTRICT 38% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 33 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 65 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 91 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 29% smaller than its 5th grade class (91).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
62.7%
CO avg 44.9% . +4.4pp since 2023
Math
65.2%
CO avg 36.1% . +8.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.7% | 65.2% |
| 2023-24 | 58.3% | 56.7% |
% 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
60.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.8%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 Black Forest Hills Elementary School
Black Forest Hills Elementary School's state test result (60.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Forest Hills Elementary School this school | 500 | 18.0% | 60.5% |
| Woodland Elementary School AURORA | 577 | 20.3% | 50.8% |
| Pine Ridge Elementary School AURORA | 617 | 21.4% | 51.1% |
| Rolling Hills Elementary School AURORA | 499 | 24.6% | 60.7% |
| Coyote Hills Elementary School AURORA | 478 | 23.4% | 50.7% |
| Academy International Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 368 | 15.5% | 54.6% |
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 Black Forest Hills Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Arapahoe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.5% | #152 of 931 | #19 of 96 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.2% | #91 of 940 ▲ 67 | #12 of 96 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.7% | #171 of 946 ▲ 62 | #18 of 96 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 500 | #231 of 1,056 | #45 of 104 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #386 of 896 | #44 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.5% | #142 of 896 | #50 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.0% | #853 of 983 | #88 of 101 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.3% | #64 of 664 | #7 of 70 |
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
500
-91 (-15%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 18.5:1
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 | 500 | 33.3 | 15.0:1 | 18% (90) |
| 2023-24 | 516 | 31.3 | 16.5:1 | 17% (88) |
| 2022-23 | 593 | 33.8 | 17.6:1 | 11% (64) |
| 2020-21 | 591 | 32 | 18.5:1 | 7% (42) |
| 2017-18 | 761 | 35.2 | 21.6:1 | 5% (38) |
| 2015-16 | 630 | 33 | 19.1:1 | 5% (32) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Black Forest Hills Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 34% (761 to 500); teachers down 5% (35.2 to 33.3).
About Black Forest Hills Elementary School
Black Forest Hills Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in AURORA, Colorado. The student body numbers 500 students, from pre-K through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Colorado) has about 379 students.
Black Forest Hills Elementary School is run by Cherry Creek School District, whose 70 schools enroll 52,099 students.
Roughly 56% of students at Black Forest Hills Elementary School are White. Other groups make up 13% multiracial, 13% Hispanic, 10% Asian, and 8% Black. The county population is about 59% White, within a few points of the school. Pick two students at random and there is a 63% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Staffing totals 33.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.0:1. On average, elementary schools in Colorado have 16.6:1, compared with 15.0:1 here. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Black Forest Hills Elementary School is 18%. That is 32 points below the 50% average for public schools in Arapahoe County.
Black Forest Hills Elementary School is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 77% of Colorado public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
A school with Black Forest Hills Elementary School's lunch-eligibility share in Colorado is predicted to score 55.8%. Black Forest Hills Elementary School scores 60.5%, 4.6 points above that line.
Arapahoe County has about 659,844 residents, and the median household income is $101,087, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Black Forest Hills Elementary School, Arapahoe County has 175 other public schools.
The closest public school, Coyote Hills Elementary School, is about 0.6 miles from Black Forest Hills Elementary School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Black Forest Hills Elementary School ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Black Forest Hills Elementary School's enrollment declined from 591 in 2020-21 to 500 in 2024-25. Students per teacher fell from 18.5 in 2020-21 to 15.0 in 2024-25.
Community posts for Black Forest Hills Elementary School can cover school safety, transportation, and start times. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Arapahoe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
659,844
Census ACS
Median income
$101,087
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
47%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
176
115,502 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cherry Creek School District
- Cherry Creek High SchoolHigh · 3,852 students
- Cherokee Trail High SchoolHigh · 3,089 students
- Eaglecrest High SchoolHigh · 2,851 students
- Grandview High SchoolHigh · 2,684 students
- Smoky Hill High SchoolHigh · 2,297 students
- Overland High SchoolHigh · 2,228 students
Other schools in AURORA
- Cherokee Trail High SchoolHigh · 3,089 students
- Grandview High SchoolHigh · 2,684 students
- Aurora Central CampusCombined · 2,468 students
- Smoky Hill High SchoolHigh · 2,297 students
- Overland High SchoolHigh · 2,228 students
- Rangeview High SchoolHigh · 2,078 students
Nearby schools
- Coyote Hills Elementary School0.6 mi · 478
- Cherokee Trail High School0.6 mi · 3,089
- Fox Ridge Middle School0.8 mi · 966
- Pine Ridge Elementary School1.0 mi · 617
- Altitude Elementary School1.3 mi · 758
- Woodland Elementary School1.7 mi · 577
Frequently asked questions
About Black Forest Hills Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Black Forest Hills Elementary School?
Black Forest Hills Elementary School enrolls approximately 500 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Black Forest Hills Elementary School serve?
Black Forest Hills Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Black Forest Hills Elementary School?
Approximately 15.0:1 students per teacher at Black Forest Hills Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Black Forest Hills Elementary School?
At Black Forest Hills Elementary School, the student body is approximately 56% White, 13% Hispanic, 8% Black, 10% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Who oversees Black Forest Hills Elementary School?
Black Forest Hills Elementary School is overseen by Cherry Creek School District in Arapahoe County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.