Cresson Elementary School

Cresson Elementary School operates as a very small primary school in CRIPPLE CREEK, Colorado, part of Cripple Creek-Victor School District No. Re-1. Current enrollment sits at 136 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Cresson Elementary School sits 64% below that benchmark.

Cripple Creek-Victor School District No. Re-1 comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 298 students; Cresson Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cresson Elementary School lists that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 11% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Teller County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Cresson Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Teller County's rate of about 42%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cresson Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 19.9%; this one delivers 29.4%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Teller County indicate the typical household earns roughly $85,361 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Teller County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,249 students), Cresson Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Cripple Creek-Victor Junior-Senior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Cresson Elementary School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 43.0%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Cresson Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 27% since 2018, when it stood at 186 (now 136). White enrollment moved from 89% to 83% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 in 2025.

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