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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Clear Sky Elementary this year?
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Enrollment
627
Elementary
DISTRICT 517 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOUGLAS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. RE 1·NCES 080345006392
Clear Sky Elementary
1470 CLEAR SKY WAY, CASTLE ROCK, CO 80109 · (303) 387-5900 · Douglas County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL627 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 64% of Colorado public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
16.3:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
151 students
DISTRICT 19% · 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 | 29 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 75 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 98 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 100 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 83 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 10% smaller than its 6th grade class (83).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
56.2%
CO avg 44.9% . +5.3pp since 2023
Math
51.7%
CO avg 36.1% . +5.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.2% | 51.7% |
| 2023-24 | 50.9% | 46.4% |
% 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
52.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.1%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 Clear Sky Elementary
Clear Sky Elementary's state test result (52.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clear Sky Elementary this school | 627 | 24.1% | 52.7% |
| Firestone Charter Academy FIRESTONE | 600 | 22.3% | 40.9% |
| Powderhorn Elementary School LITTLETON | 522 | 25.7% | 39.2% |
| Pioneer Ridge Elementary School JOHNSTOWN | 528 | 22.2% | 38.2% |
| Orchard Hill Elementary WINDSOR | 548 | 21.4% | N/A |
| Grandview Elementary School WINDSOR | 542 | 20.7% | 54.2% |
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 Clear Sky Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Douglas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.7% | #253 of 931 | #44 of 58 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.7% | #249 of 940 ▲ 37 | #41 of 58 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.2% | #273 of 946 ▲ 73 | #45 of 58 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 627 | #96 of 1,056 | #11 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #573 of 896 | #37 of 59 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.7% | #540 of 896 | #36 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.1% | #772 of 983 | #13 of 60 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.3% | #231 of 664 | #19 of 45 |
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
627
-23 (-4%) vs 2020
-17% since 2010-11, when it was 752
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 16.7:1
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 | 627 | 38.6 | 16.3:1 | 24% (151) |
| 2023-24 | 683 | 39.5 | 17.3:1 | 22% (148) |
| 2022-23 | 675 | 38.8 | 17.4:1 | 13% (91) |
| 2020-21 | 650 | 39 | 16.7:1 | 15% (99) |
| 2017-18 | 807 | 39.8 | 20.3:1 | 15% (123) |
| 2015-16 | 840 | 42 | 20.0:1 | 18% (148) |
| 2010-11 | 752 | 39 | 19.3:1 | 15% (114) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Clear Sky Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (807 to 627); teachers down 3% (39.8 to 38.6).
About Clear Sky Elementary
A high-enrollment elementary school in CASTLE ROCK, Colorado, Clear Sky Elementary is part of Douglas County School District No. Re 1. Its enrollment is 627 students, spread over pre-K through 6. Elementary schools in Colorado average about 379 students, which makes this school 65% above average.
Douglas County School District No. Re 1 enrolls 61,550 students in 89 schools, including Clear Sky Elementary.
The student body at Clear Sky Elementary is 70% White. After that, the student body is 22% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. Among all residents of Douglas County, the White share is about 80%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 47%.
There are 38.6 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 16.3:1. That is in line with the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. On the income side, 24% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Clear Sky Elementary earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 64% of Colorado public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Clear Sky Elementary falls in the middle 80% of Colorado schools: 52.7% actual against 52.1% predicted.
The school's county is Douglas County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $149,594, 62% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 3% of people live in poverty. There are 92 public schools in the county, enrolling about 63,841, Clear Sky Elementary among them.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Soaring Hawk Elementary School, is about 0.9 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Clear Sky Elementary is 3rd on average proficiency.
Clear Sky Elementary falls in the Suburb: Small locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Over 4 years, enrollment fell by 23 students, from 650 to 627.
Clear Sky Elementary has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Douglas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
377,150
Census ACS
Median income
$149,594
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
62%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
92
63,841 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Douglas County School District No. Re 1
- American AcademyElementary · 2,803 students
- Rock Canyon High SchoolHigh · 2,325 students
- Legend High SchoolHigh · 2,206 students
- Mountain Vista High SchoolHigh · 2,169 students
- Chaparral High SchoolHigh · 2,007 students
- Castle View High SchoolHigh · 1,938 students
Other schools in CASTLE ROCK
- Castle View High SchoolHigh · 1,938 students
- Douglas County High SchoolHigh · 1,659 students
- Aspen View AcademyElementary · 1,018 students
- Mesa Middle SchoolMiddle · 852 students
- World Compass AcademyElementary · 791 students
- Castle Rock Middle SchoolMiddle · 660 students
Nearby schools
- Soaring Hawk Elementary School0.9 mi · 431
- Aspen View Academy1.3 mi · 1,018
- Academy Charter School1.8 mi · 581
- Meadow View Elementary School1.9 mi · 508
- Castle Rock Middle School2.0 mi · 660
- Castle View High School2.2 mi · 1,938
Frequently asked questions
About Clear Sky ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Clear Sky Elementary?
Clear Sky Elementary enrolls approximately 627 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Clear Sky Elementary serve?
Clear Sky Elementary serves grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Clear Sky Elementary have?
Clear Sky Elementary employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.3:1.
How diverse is Clear Sky Elementary?
Clear Sky Elementary reports a student body of 70% White, 22% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Clear Sky Elementary public or private?
Clear Sky Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Douglas County School District No. Re 1.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.