Dartmouth Elementary School

Located at 3050 SOUTH LAREDO ST, in AURORA, Colorado, Dartmouth Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary campus that instructs 422 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the counties of Adams and A.

Across the 59 schools in Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the counties of Adams and A (39,464 students total), Dartmouth Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Dartmouth Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 27% White, 13% Black, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Arapahoe County as a whole is about 22% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 75% of students at Dartmouth Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Arapahoe County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Dartmouth Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.5%, the actual is 23.7%, a residual of +2.3 points.

Around the school, census data for Arapahoe County shows the typical household earns roughly $101,087 per year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Dartmouth Elementary School is one of 176 public schools in Arapahoe County (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students).

Meadowood Child Development Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Dartmouth Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 22.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dartmouth Elementary School has increased 24%, going from 340 students in 2018 to 422 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 41% to 48%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for Dartmouth Elementary School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.