Coyote Creek Elementary School

Coyote Creek Elementary School, a mid-tier K-5 school in HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colorado, run under Douglas County School District No. Re 1, instructs 506 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 34% larger than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Douglas County School District No. Re 1 runs 89 schools in total, collectively educating 61,550 students. Coyote Creek Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Coyote Creek Elementary School logs that 69% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 15% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Douglas County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Coyote Creek Elementary School has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 13% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Coyote Creek Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.1%; this one delivers 65.1%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Douglas County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $149,594 per year, about 62% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Douglas County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,841 students), Coyote Creek Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Thunderridge High School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Coyote Creek Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Coyote Creek Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 64.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Coyote Creek Elementary School has grew 18%, going from 430 students in 2018 to 506 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 78% to 69% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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