Deer Creek Elementary School

Set in BAILEY, Colorado, Deer Creek Elementary School is a reasonably sized primary school, one of the schools within Platte Canyon School District No. 1 of the county of Park. It serves 367 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 3 schools in Platte Canyon School District No. 1 of the county of Park (688 students total), Deer Creek Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Deer Creek Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%); the rest reads as 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Deer Creek Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.8%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Park County indicate median household income runs about $103,670, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Deer Creek Elementary School is one of 8 public schools in Park County (combined enrollment of about 1,264 students).

Platte Canyon High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.1 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Deer Creek Elementary School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 56.2%.

Deer Creek Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Deer Creek Elementary School has shrank 18%, going from 450 students in 2018 to 367 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

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