Centennial Elementary

Centennial Elementary, a mid-tier primary school in FIRESTONE, Colorado, run under St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J, educates 525 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Centennial Elementary sits 39% bigger than that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, Centennial Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 73%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Weld County's rate of about 47%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Centennial Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.2%; this one delivers 42.3%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Weld County indicate median household income runs about $97,097, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Weld County runs 116 public schools (combined enrollment of about 61,274 students), of which Centennial Elementary is one.

Firestone Charter Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Centennial Elementary. On composite proficiency, Centennial Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 34.0%.

Centennial Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 21%: 667 students in 2018 compared to 525 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 65% to 61%. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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