Enrollment
313
Elementary
DISTRICT 352 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BOULDER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. RE2·NCES 080249001376
Coal Creek Elementary School
801 WEST TAMARISK STREET, LOUISVILLE, CO 80027 · (720) 561-4500 · Boulder County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL313 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 79% of Colorado public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
17.4:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
58 students
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 | 30 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 39 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 39 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (39) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (52).
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
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CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
67.5%
CO avg 44.9% . +6.9pp since 2023
Math
61.8%
CO avg 36.1% . +2.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.5% | 61.8% |
| 2023-24 | 60.6% | 58.9% |
% 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
61.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.5%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 Coal Creek Elementary School
Coal Creek Elementary School's state test result (61.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coal Creek Elementary School this school | 313 | 18.5% | 61.1% |
| Eisenhower Elementary School BOULDER | 308 | 22.4% | 77.1% |
| Heatherwood Elementary School BOULDER | 252 | 18.7% | 64.8% |
| Trailblazer Elementary School HIGHLANDS RANCH | 330 | 17.3% | 61.9% |
| Coyote Ridge Elementary School BROOMFIELD | 392 | 16.6% | 67.8% |
| Homestead Elementary School CENTENNIAL | 334 | 12.9% | 68.3% |
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 Coal Creek Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Boulder County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.1% | #145 of 931 | #22 of 46 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.8% | #124 of 940 ▲ 5 | #19 of 48 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.5% | #115 of 946 ▲ 84 | #20 of 48 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 313 | #671 of 1,056 | #34 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.4:1 | #709 of 896 | #39 of 47 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.6% | #572 of 896 | #23 of 47 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.5% | #846 of 983 | #32 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.8% | #197 of 664 | #16 of 44 |
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
313
-20 (-6%) vs 2020
-39% since 1990-91, when it was 509
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 313 | 18 | 17.4:1 | 19% (58) |
| 2023-24 | 324 | 18.7 | 17.3:1 | 14% (44) |
| 2022-23 | 330 | 19.1 | 17.2:1 | 28% (91) |
| 2020-21 | 333 | 22 | 15.1:1 | 8% (28) |
| 2017-18 | 416 | 22.3 | 18.6:1 | 7% (28) |
| 2015-16 | 426 | 20 | 21.3:1 | 11% (45) |
| 2010-11 | 465 | 24 | 19.4:1 | 7% (33) |
| 2000-01 | 553 | 29 | 19.1:1 | 4% (24) |
| 1990-91 | 509 | 24 | 21.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Coal Creek Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 25% (416 to 313); teachers down 19% (22.3 to 18).
About Coal Creek Elementary School
Coal Creek Elementary School is a small elementary school located in LOUISVILLE, Colorado. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 313 students on the rolls.
Boulder Valley School District No. Re2 is the district for Coal Creek Elementary School. It has 56 schools and 27,988 students.
More than half of enrollment at Coal Creek Elementary School is White: 73%. Other groups make up 11% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, and 5% Asian. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 45%.
For every teacher at Coal Creek Elementary School, there are about 17.4 students; the school has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado, this school's ratio is higher. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 19%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Boulder County is 33%.
On the allk12 Grade, Coal Creek Elementary School lands at A-, ahead of 79% of Colorado public elementary schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Coal Creek Elementary School is 5.6 points above its prediction. Actual: 61.1%. Predicted: 55.5%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Boulder County show that median household income comes to about $103,994, roughly 64% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Boulder County counts 86 public schools with about 42,200 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Fireside Elementary School, is about 0.9 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Coal Creek Elementary School is 5th on average proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put Coal Creek Elementary School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000 (Suburb: Small).
Enrollment was 313 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 333. Its ratio of students to teachers was 15.1:1 in 2020-21, and 17.4:1 in 2024-25.
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Boulder County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
328,961
Census ACS
Median income
$103,994
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
64%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
86
42,200 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Boulder Valley School District No. Re2
- Boulder High SchoolHigh · 1,939 students
- Fairview High SchoolHigh · 1,863 students
- Broomfield High SchoolHigh · 1,693 students
- Centaurus High SchoolHigh · 1,557 students
- Peak to Peak Charter SchoolCombined · 1,447 students
- Monarch High SchoolHigh · 1,431 students
Other schools in LOUISVILLE
- Monarch High SchoolHigh · 1,431 students
- Monarch K-8 SchoolElementary · 698 students
- Louisville Middle SchoolMiddle · 626 students
- Louisville Elementary SchoolElementary · 449 students
- Fireside Elementary SchoolElementary · 431 students
Nearby schools
- Fireside Elementary School0.9 mi · 431
- Louisville Elementary School1.2 mi · 449
- Louisville Middle School1.3 mi · 626
- Douglass Elementary School1.7 mi · 313
- Monarch K-8 School2.3 mi · 698
- Monarch High School2.3 mi · 1,431
Frequently asked questions
About Coal Creek Elementary SchoolHow large is Coal Creek Elementary School?
Coal Creek Elementary School enrolls approximately 313 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Coal Creek Elementary School serve?
Coal Creek Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Coal Creek Elementary School?
Approximately 17.4:1 students per teacher at Coal Creek Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Coal Creek Elementary School?
Student demographics at Coal Creek Elementary School are roughly 73% White, 11% Hispanic, 1% Black, 5% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is Coal Creek Elementary School in?
Coal Creek Elementary School is part of Boulder Valley School District No. Re2.
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