Custer County Elementary School

As an one-room-style elementary campus in WESTCLIFFE, Colorado, Custer County Elementary School hosts 146 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Custer County School District Consolidate 1. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Custer County Elementary School sits 61% leaner than that benchmark.

Custer County School District Consolidate 1 runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 313 students. Custer County Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Custer County Elementary School shows that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, Custer County Elementary School has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Custer County Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Custer County Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.0%; this one delivers 30.6%.

In the broader community, census data for Custer County shows median household income runs about $72,674, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Custer County Elementary School is one of 3 public schools in Custer County (combined enrollment of about 313 students).

Nearest neighbor: Custer Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Custer County Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Custer County Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 28.6%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 25%: 194 students in 2018 compared to 146 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 3% to 8% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 today.

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