Bradford K8 North

Set in LITTLETON, Colorado, Bradford K8 North is a close-knit middle-grades school, overseen by Jefferson County School District No. R-1. It teaches 350 students across grades 5 through 8. That puts it 24% leaner than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 462 students.

Jefferson County School District No. R-1 runs 148 schools in total, collectively educating 74,935 students. Bradford K8 North is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Bradford K8 North logs that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Bradford K8 North higher than the state norm the norm. About 8% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Jefferson County (around 32%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Bradford K8 North performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.9%, the actual is 59.3%, a residual of -2.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, Jefferson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $110,656 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Jefferson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students), of which Bradford K8 North is one.

Bradford K8 South is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bradford K8 North. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bradford K8 North ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 50.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Bradford K8 North's enrollment has shrank 13% since 2018, when it stood at 403 (now 350). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 today.

On this page, members of the Bradford K8 North community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.