Enrollment
341
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. R-1·NCES 080480000783
Deane Elementary School
580 SOUTH HARLAN STREET, LAKEWOOD, CO 80226 · (303) 982-9655 · Jefferson County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL341 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 1% of Colorado public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
273 students
DISTRICT 35% · STATE 50%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 16 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 44 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 37 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 36 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 53 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 48 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 8% smaller than its 6th grade class (48).
Student demographics
39%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
12.4%
CO avg 44.9% . -0.4pp since 2023
Math
6.4%
CO avg 36.1% . +2.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 12 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 6 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 12.4% | 6.4% |
| 2023-24 | 12.8% | 4.2% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
11.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
18.2%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 12% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 18% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Deane Elementary School
Deane Elementary School's state test result (11.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deane Elementary School this school | 341 | 80.1% | 11.6% |
| Hillcrest Elementary School NORTHGLENN | 338 | 84.3% | 14.8% |
| North Mor Elementary School NORTHGLENN | 304 | 79.3% | 17.3% |
| Metropolitan Arts Academy DENVER | 302 | 80.5% | 25.6% |
| Coronado Hills Elementary School THORNTON | 412 | 81.3% | 15.0% |
| Rose Stein International Elementary LAKEWOOD | 336 | 79.8% | 12.8% |
Matched among Colorado elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Deane Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 11.6% | #907 of 931 | #81 of 82 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 6.4% | #919 of 940 ▲ 9 | #84 of 85 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 12.4% | #914 of 946 ▼ 13 | #84 of 85 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 341 | #588 of 1,056 | #53 of 89 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #113 of 896 | #3 of 86 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 38.6% | #709 of 896 | #59 of 86 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.1% | #148 of 983 | #3 of 85 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.8% | #340 of 664 | #29 of 62 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
341
-31 (-8%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 499
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 13.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 341 | 26.3 | 13.0:1 | 80% (273) |
| 2023-24 | 292 | 25.5 | 11.4:1 | 82% (240) |
| 2022-23 | 295 | 25.4 | 11.6:1 | 88% (261) |
| 2020-21 | 372 | 28 | 13.3:1 | 83% (308) |
| 2017-18 | 410 | 26.5 | 15.5:1 | 87% (356) |
| 2015-16 | 483 | 28 | 17.3:1 | 83% (402) |
| 2010-11 | 474 | 33 | 14.4:1 | 82% (390) |
| 2000-01 | 475 | 26 | 18.3:1 | 47% (222) |
| 1990-91 | 499 | 24 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Deane Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (410 to 341); teachers down 1% (26.5 to 26.3).
About Deane Elementary School
Deane Elementary School is an elementary school in LAKEWOOD, Colorado, reachable at (303) 982-9655. The school enrolls 341 students, from pre-K through 6.
Jefferson County School District No. R-1 includes 148 schools. Together they enroll 74,935 students.
Hispanic students account for 77% of enrollment at Deane Elementary School. Other groups make up 15% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian, and 2% Black. Jefferson County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. Deane Elementary School has a diversity index of 39%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school has about 13.0 students per teacher and 26.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. That ratio is under the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 80%. Public schools in Jefferson County average 32%.
Deane Elementary School is graded F by allk12, scoring above 1% of Colorado public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
In Colorado, Deane Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 11.6% actual against a predicted 18.2%.
Jefferson County has about 579,377 residents, and median household income is about $110,656, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Jefferson County number 168 and enroll about 74,739.
The next-closest public school is New America School, about 0.2 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Deane Elementary School. In a group of 6 nearby schools with scores, Deane Elementary School ranks 6th on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Deane Elementary School had 372 students in 2020-21 and 341 in 2024-25, an 8% decrease.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Deane Elementary School covering things like enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Jefferson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,377
Census ACS
Median income
$110,656
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
52%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
168
74,739 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jefferson County School District No. R-1
- Arvada West High SchoolHigh · 1,923 students
- Ralston Valley Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,875 students
- Chatfield High SchoolHigh · 1,808 students
- Lakewood High SchoolHigh · 1,735 students
- Columbine High SchoolHigh · 1,710 students
- Golden High SchoolHigh · 1,469 students
Other schools in LAKEWOOD
- Lakewood High SchoolHigh · 1,735 students
- Bear Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,344 students
- Green Mountain High SchoolHigh · 1,071 students
- Alameda International Junior/Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,002 students
- Bear Creek K-8 SchoolElementary · 863 students
- Dunstan Middle SchoolMiddle · 798 students
Nearby schools
- New America School0.2 mi · 74
- Brady Exploration School0.5 mi · 294
- Knapp Elementary School0.9 mi · 351
- Jeffco Transition Services School0.9 mi · 116
- Rose Stein International Elementary1.0 mi · 336
- Lasley Elementary School1.1 mi · 576
Frequently asked questions
About Deane Elementary SchoolHow large is Deane Elementary School?
Deane Elementary School enrolls approximately 341 students in grades PK-06.
Is Deane Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Deane Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Deane Elementary School have?
Deane Elementary School employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Deane Elementary School?
Student demographics at Deane Elementary School are roughly 15% White, 77% Hispanic, 2% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Deane Elementary School in?
Deane Elementary School is part of Jefferson County School District No. R-1.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.