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Columbine Elementary School
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsWhat this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Columbine Elementary School
Located at 3130 REPPLIER DRIVE, in BOULDER, Colorado, Columbine Elementary School is a medium-sized K-5 school that instructs 369 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Boulder Valley School District No. Re2.
Boulder Valley School District No. Re2 runs 56 schools in total, collectively educating 27,988 students. Columbine Elementary School is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Columbine Elementary School lists that 66% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 26% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Boulder County as a whole is about 15% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Columbine Elementary School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Columbine Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Boulder County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Columbine Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.4%; this one delivers 29.3%.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Boulder County put median household earnings sit near $103,994, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Boulder County's 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,200 students), Columbine Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Whittier Elementary School, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Columbine Elementary School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.3%.
The campus sits in a high-density setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Columbine Elementary School has ticked down 31%, going from 537 students in 2018 to 369 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 36% to 26%.
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