Jefferson Academy Coal Creek Canyon

Set in GOLDEN, Colorado, Jefferson Academy Coal Creek Canyon is an one-room-style K-5 school, overseen by Jefferson County School District No. R-1. It enrolls 59 students across grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 84% leaner than the state mean of about 379.

Jefferson County School District No. R-1 runs 148 schools in total, collectively educating 74,935 students. Jefferson Academy Coal Creek Canyon is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Jefferson Academy Coal Creek Canyon reports that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the resource side, Jefferson Academy Coal Creek Canyon reports 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 17% of students at Jefferson Academy Coal Creek Canyon qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Jefferson Academy Coal Creek Canyon performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.5%, the actual is 50.3%, a residual of -6.2 points.

In the surrounding community, Jefferson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $110,656 per year, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Jefferson County's 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students), Jefferson Academy Coal Creek Canyon is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Mesa Elementary School, roughly 7.0 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Jefferson Academy Coal Creek Canyon comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 72.1%.

The school occupies a low-density site. Jefferson Academy Coal Creek Canyon operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 58%: 141 students in 2018 compared to 59 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 90% to 85%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 7.7:1 today.

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