Columbine Hills Elementary School

Columbine Hills Elementary School, a close-knit K-5 school in LITTLETON, Colorado, one of the schools within Jefferson County School District No. R-1, educates 315 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Columbine Hills Elementary School is one of 148 schools operated by Jefferson County School District No. R-1, a district that serves 74,935 students overall.

Demographically, Columbine Hills Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 70%; the rest looks like 16% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 2% Native American. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Columbine Hills Elementary School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Columbine Hills Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.3%, the actual is 40.6%, a residual of -5.8 points.

In the area at large, Jefferson County reports that median household income runs about $110,656, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Jefferson County's 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students), Columbine Hills Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Ken Caryl Middle School, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Columbine Hills Elementary School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.8%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Columbine Hills Elementary School has ticked down 23%, going from 410 students in 2018 to 315 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.5:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

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