Columbine Elementary School

Columbine Elementary School is an elementary campus of middle-of-the-pack scale in DENVER, Colorado, run under School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C, enrolling 346 students in grades pre-K through 5.

School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C runs 198 schools in total, collectively educating 90,471 students. Columbine Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Columbine Elementary School shows that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 25% Hispanic, 18% Black, 10% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 59% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Denver County (around 63%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Columbine Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.1%, the actual is 31.8%, a residual of -9.3 points.

Around the school, Denver County reports that the typical household earns roughly $94,718 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Denver County runs 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students), of which Columbine Elementary School is one.

Prep Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Columbine Elementary School at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 24.2%.

Columbine Elementary School operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Columbine Elementary School has increased 33%, going from 260 students in 2018 to 346 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share climbed from 13% to 45%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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