Douglass Elementary School
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsWhat this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 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 down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Douglass Elementary School
Set in BOULDER, Colorado, Douglass Elementary School is a cozy K-5 school, operated by Boulder Valley School District No. Re2. It caters to 313 students across grades pre-K through 5.
Douglass Elementary School is one of 56 schools operated by Boulder Valley School District No. Re2, a district that teaches 27,988 students overall.
In terms of who attends, Douglass Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%); the rest reads as 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. Compared to Boulder County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.9:1. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 14% of students at Douglass Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Boulder County (around 33%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Douglass Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.2%; this one delivers 66.5%.
In the broader community, census data for Boulder County shows median household income runs about $103,994, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Douglass Elementary School is one of 86 public schools in Boulder County (combined enrollment of about 42,200 students).
The closest other public school is Arapahoe Ridge High School, roughly 1.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Douglass Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Douglass Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 60.3%.
Douglass Elementary School operates from a residential location.
Over the past 7-year window. Douglass Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 28% since 2018, when it stood at 435 (now 313). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.
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