Dutch Creek Elementary School

Dutch Creek Elementary School is a close-knit primary school in LITTLETON, Colorado, one of the schools within Jefferson County School District No. R-1. The school teaches 286 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 25% smaller than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Across the 148 schools in Jefferson County School District No. R-1 (74,935 students total), Dutch Creek Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Dutch Creek Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 22% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dutch Creek Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.5%, the actual is 43.3%, a residual of -2.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $110,656 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Jefferson County's 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students), Dutch Creek Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Ken Caryl Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dutch Creek Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dutch Creek Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 47.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Dutch Creek Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 317 (now 286). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 14% to 22%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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