Black Rock Elementary

Black Rock Elementary is one of the high-enrollment elementary schools in ERIE, Colorado, overseen by St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J, with 597 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Black Rock Elementary sits 58% above that benchmark.

St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 31,607 students; Black Rock Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Black Rock Elementary shows that White students make up the majority at 66%. The remainder breaks down as 16% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 6% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Black Rock Elementary has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Weld County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Black Rock Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.0%, the actual is 61.4%, a residual of +6.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Weld County) reports that median household earnings sit near $97,097, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Weld County runs 116 public schools (combined enrollment of about 61,274 students), of which Black Rock Elementary is one.

Prospect Ridge Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Black Rock Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 56.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Black Rock Elementary's enrollment has shrank 23% since 2018, when it stood at 774 (now 597). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 84% to 66% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Black Rock Elementary community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.