Elk Creek Elementary School

Elk Creek Elementary School is one of the mid-tier primary schools in PINE, Colorado, part of Jefferson County School District No. R-1, with 323 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Jefferson County School District No. R-1 comprises 148 schools with combined enrollment of 74,935 students; Elk Creek Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Elk Creek Elementary School lists that nearly all students (84%) are White; the rest consists of 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Elk Creek Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Elk Creek Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.6%, the actual is 57.9%, a residual of +4.3 points.

Across the wider 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%. In all, Jefferson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students), of which Elk Creek Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Conifer Senior High School, around 4.8 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Elk Creek Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 54.9%.

Elk Creek Elementary School operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Elk Creek Elementary School has shrank 17%, going from 388 students in 2018 to 323 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 89% to 84% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.