Emerald Elementary School

Set in BROOMFIELD, Colorado, Emerald Elementary School is a mid-sized primary school, operated by Boulder Valley School District No. Re2. It educates 383 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Boulder Valley School District No. Re2 comprises 56 schools with combined enrollment of 27,988 students; Emerald Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Emerald Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 36% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian, 3% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Broomfield County (around 24%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Emerald Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.9%, the actual is 46.0%, a residual of +10.2 points.

Across the wider county, Broomfield County reports that the typical household earns roughly $123,874 per year, roughly 60% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Emerald Elementary School is one of 16 public schools in Broomfield County (combined enrollment of about 11,844 students).

Nearest neighbor: Kohl Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Emerald Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 51.8%.

Emerald Elementary School operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 410 students in 2018 compared to 383 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share shrank from 45% to 36%.

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