Compass Montessori - Wheat Ridge Charter School

Compass Montessori - Wheat Ridge Charter School operates as a tight-knit elementary campus in WHEAT RIDGE, Colorado, overseen by Jefferson County School District No. R-1. Current enrollment sits at 288 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Compass Montessori - Wheat Ridge Charter School sits 24% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 148 schools in Jefferson County School District No. R-1 (74,935 students total), Compass Montessori - Wheat Ridge Charter School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Compass Montessori - Wheat Ridge Charter School logs that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 10% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Compass Montessori - Wheat Ridge Charter School lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.3:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Jefferson County put median household earnings sit near $110,656, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Compass Montessori - Wheat Ridge Charter School is one of 168 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students).

The closest other public school is Norma Anderson Early Learning Center, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Compass Montessori - Wheat Ridge Charter School operates from an outer-ring location. Compass Montessori - Wheat Ridge Charter School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Compass Montessori - Wheat Ridge Charter School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 286 (now 288). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 today.

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