Enrollment
269
Elementary
DISTRICT 478 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHERRY CREEK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 080291000190
Dry Creek Elementary School
7686 EAST HINSDALE AVENUE, ENGLEWOOD, CO 80112 · (720) 554-3300 · Arapahoe County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL269 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 93% of Colorado public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
14.0:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
54 students
DISTRICT 38% · 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 | 13 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 40 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 31 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (40) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (49).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
76.1%
CO avg 44.9% . +8.7pp since 2023
Math
61.2%
CO avg 36.1% . +1.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.1% | 61.2% |
| 2023-24 | 67.4% | 60.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
68.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.6%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 55% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Colorado's top 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 Dry Creek Elementary School
Dry Creek Elementary School's state test result (68.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dry Creek Elementary School this school | 269 | 20.1% | 68.4% |
| Mountain View Elementary School PARKER | 324 | 16.4% | N/A |
| Eisenhower Elementary School BOULDER | 308 | 22.4% | 77.1% |
| Steck Elementary School DENVER | 323 | 20.1% | 80.2% |
| Coal Creek Elementary School LOUISVILLE | 313 | 18.5% | 61.1% |
| Sand Creek Elementary School HIGHLANDS RANCH | 322 | 27.3% | 57.4% |
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 Dry Creek Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Arapahoe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.4% | #66 of 931 | #8 of 96 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.2% | #133 of 940 ▼ 15 | #18 of 96 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.1% | #40 of 946 ▲ 73 | #5 of 96 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 269 | #791 of 1,056 | #94 of 104 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #226 of 896 | #23 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.2% | #282 of 896 | #65 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.1% | #830 of 983 | #86 of 101 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -35.2% | #57 of 664 | #6 of 70 |
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
269
-88 (-25%) vs 2020
-45% since 1990-91, when it was 492
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 17.9:1
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 | 269 | 19.2 | 14.0:1 | 20% (54) |
| 2023-24 | 275 | 19.4 | 14.2:1 | 25% (68) |
| 2022-23 | 310 | 20 | 15.5:1 | 18% (56) |
| 2020-21 | 357 | 20 | 17.9:1 | 16% (56) |
| 2017-18 | 415 | 21.9 | 18.9:1 | 17% (71) |
| 2015-16 | 411 | 21 | 19.6:1 | 14% (58) |
| 2010-11 | 425 | 20 | 21.3:1 | 17% (73) |
| 2000-01 | 396 | 20 | 19.8:1 | 5% (20) |
| 1990-91 | 492 | 25 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dry Creek Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 35% (415 to 269); teachers down 12% (21.9 to 19.2).
About Dry Creek Elementary School
Dry Creek Elementary School is a public elementary school run by Cherry Creek School District in ENGLEWOOD, Colorado. It enrolls 269 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 5. It has 29% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Colorado (about 379).
A total of 70 schools make up Cherry Creek School District, with 52,099 students enrolled.
More than half of enrollment at Dry Creek Elementary School is White: 63%. Enrollment also includes 14% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 6% Asian, and 4% Black. In Arapahoe County overall, the White share is about 59%. The diversity index for Dry Creek Elementary School is 56%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school's 19.2 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.0:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Colorado average 16.6:1. Income data for the school show 20% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Arapahoe County average 50%.
On the allk12 Grade, Dry Creek Elementary School lands at A, ahead of 93% of Colorado public elementary schools.
In Colorado, Dry Creek Elementary School is one of the top 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 68.4% compared with a predicted 54.6%.
The school is in Arapahoe County, where median household income comes to about $101,087, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Arapahoe County's 176 public schools enroll about 115,502 students and include Dry Creek Elementary School.
Among nearby public schools, Homestead Elementary School is closest at about 0.5 miles. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Dry Creek Elementary School is 2nd on average proficiency.
The school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, according to its NCES locale (City: Mid-size).
Enrollment was 269 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 357. The ratio of students to teachers went from 17.9:1 to 14.0:1 over the same years.
This page is set up for the Dry Creek Elementary School community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Arapahoe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
659,844
Census ACS
Median income
$101,087
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
47%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
176
115,502 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cherry Creek School District
- Cherry Creek High SchoolHigh · 3,852 students
- Cherokee Trail High SchoolHigh · 3,089 students
- Eaglecrest High SchoolHigh · 2,851 students
- Grandview High SchoolHigh · 2,684 students
- Smoky Hill High SchoolHigh · 2,297 students
- Overland High SchoolHigh · 2,228 students
Other schools in ENGLEWOOD
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- HOPE ONLINE LEARNING ACADEMY CO-OPHigh · 1,307 students
- Colorado Summit Connections AcademyCombined · 1,245 students
- Colorado Early Colleges Douglas CountyHigh · 1,035 students
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Other Dry Creek Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 4 states are named Dry Creek Elementary. Dry Creek Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 5.
- Dry Creek ElementaryClovis, CA · 939 students
- Dry Creek ElementaryRio Linda, CA · 645 students
- Dry Creek ElementaryPORT ANGELES, WA · 393 students
- Dry Creek ElementaryDouglas, WY · 8 students
Nearby schools
- Homestead Elementary School0.5 mi · 334
- Walnut Hills Community Elementary School0.6 mi · 342
- Willow Creek Elementary School0.8 mi · 462
- Heritage Elementary School1.2 mi · 302
- Skyview Academy1.6 mi · 1,358
- Acres Green Elementary School1.7 mi · 341
Frequently asked questions
About Dry Creek Elementary SchoolHow large is Dry Creek Elementary School?
Dry Creek Elementary School enrolls approximately 269 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Dry Creek Elementary School serve?
Dry Creek Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Dry Creek Elementary School have?
Dry Creek Elementary School employs 19 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.0:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Dry Creek Elementary School?
At Dry Creek Elementary School, the student body is approximately 63% White, 14% Hispanic, 4% Black, 6% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Who oversees Dry Creek Elementary School?
Dry Creek Elementary School is overseen by Cherry Creek School District in Arapahoe County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.