Coal Creek Elementary School

Coal Creek Elementary School is an elementary school of intimate scale in LOUISVILLE, Colorado, operated by Boulder Valley School District No. Re2, educateing 313 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Boulder Valley School District No. Re2, which oversees 56 schools and 27,988 students, Coal Creek Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Coal Creek Elementary School lists that 73% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 11% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 5% Asian.

On the resource side, The school lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Boulder County's rate of about 33%.

After controlling for student poverty, Coal Creek Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.1%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Boulder County shows median household earnings sit near $103,994, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Boulder County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,200 students), of which Coal Creek Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Fireside Elementary School, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Coal Creek Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Coal Creek Elementary School at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 59.0%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Coal Creek Elementary School has shrank 25%, going from 416 students in 2018 to 313 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 83% to 73%. Class-load math has fell: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

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