Crested Butte Elementary School

Crested Butte Elementary School is a close-knit primary school in CRESTED BUTTE, Colorado, overseen by Gunnison Watershed School District Re1J. The school teaches 303 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Crested Butte Elementary School sits 20% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 7 schools in Gunnison Watershed School District Re1J (2,095 students total), Crested Butte Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Crested Butte Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). The remainder looks like 6% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Around 16% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Gunnison County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Crested Butte Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.1%, the actual is 61.6%, a residual of +4.5 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Gunnison County) records that median household income runs about $84,527, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Gunnison County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,095 students), Crested Butte Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Crested Butte Secondary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Crested Butte Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Crested Butte Elementary School has decreased 12%, going from 345 students in 2018 to 303 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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