Eagle Crest Elementary School

As a medium-sized primary school in LONGMONT, Colorado, Eagle Crest Elementary School hosts 421 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J.

St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 31,607 students; Eagle Crest Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Eagle Crest Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 38% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Boulder County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Eagle Crest Elementary School records 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Boulder County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Eagle Crest Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.8%.

Zooming out to the county, Boulder County reports that the typical household earns roughly $103,994 per year, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Boulder County's 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,200 students), Eagle Crest Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Altona Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Eagle Crest Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Eagle Crest Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.0%.

Eagle Crest Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Eagle Crest Elementary School has decreased 30%, going from 598 students in 2018 to 421 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 24% to 38%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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