Cotopaxi Elementary School

Cotopaxi Elementary School is an elementary-level community of rural-scale scale in COTOPAXI, Colorado, operated by Fremont Re-3, works with 78 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 79% leaner than the state mean of about 379.

Within Fremont Re-3, which oversees 2 schools and 155 students, Cotopaxi Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Cotopaxi Elementary School shows that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. Compared to Fremont County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.0:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 64% of students at Cotopaxi Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Fremont County (around 55%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Cotopaxi Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.9%, the actual is 26.2%, a residual of -1.6 points.

Across the wider county, Fremont County reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,664 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Cotopaxi Elementary School is one of 13 public schools in Fremont County (combined enrollment of about 4,640 students).

Cotopaxi Junior-Senior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cotopaxi Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 55.8%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Cotopaxi Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 15% since 2018, when it stood at 92 (now 78). Over the same period, the Hispanic share shrank from 13% to 5%. Class-load math has fell: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 in 2025.

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