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Enrollment
486
Elementary
DISTRICT 467 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. VRAIN VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. RE1J·NCES 080537000899
Erie Elementary School
4137 E COUNTY LINE RD., ERIE, CO 80516 · (303) 828-3395 · Boulder County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL486 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 91% 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.
- A-Beats 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
17.3:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
85 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 50%
Community
5
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 | 50 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 91 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (73) is 14% larger than its 5th grade class (64).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
67.2%
CO avg 44.9% . +0.3pp since 2023
Math
67.5%
CO avg 36.1% . +5.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.2% | 67.5% |
| 2023-24 | 66.9% | 62.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
66.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.1%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 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 Erie Elementary School
Erie Elementary School's state test result (66.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erie Elementary School this school | 486 | 17.5% | 66.2% |
| Highlands Elementary School ERIE | 528 | 15.3% | 65.0% |
| Wildcat Mountain Elementary School LITTLETON | 423 | 15.6% | 66.5% |
| Silver Creek Elementary THORNTON | 538 | 19.7% | 57.4% |
| Willow Creek Elementary School CENTENNIAL | 462 | 14.7% | 65.8% |
| Eldorado K-8 School SUPERIOR | 529 | 15.1% | 69.9% |
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 Erie Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Boulder County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.2% | #85 of 931 | #15 of 46 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.5% | #71 of 940 ▲ 36 | #13 of 48 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.2% | #118 of 946 ▲ 1 | #22 of 48 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 486 | #266 of 1,056 | #10 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.3:1 | #689 of 896 | #37 of 47 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.6% | #497 of 896 | #18 of 47 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 17.5% | #860 of 983 | #35 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.8% | #447 of 664 | #34 of 44 |
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
486
+145 (+43%) vs 2020
+7% since 1990-91, when it was 456
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
was 17.1:1
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 | 486 | 28.1 | 17.3:1 | 17% (85) |
| 2023-24 | 450 | 27.1 | 16.6:1 | 18% (81) |
| 2022-23 | 390 | 25 | 15.6:1 | 19% (73) |
| 2020-21 | 341 | 20 | 17.1:1 | 18% (61) |
| 2017-18 | 551 | 29.4 | 18.8:1 | 15% (81) |
| 2015-16 | 516 | 26 | 19.9:1 | 21% (106) |
| 2010-11 | 644 | 32 | 20.1:1 | 15% (94) |
| 2000-01 | 535 | 25 | 21.4:1 | 10% (51) |
| 1990-91 | 456 | 22 | 20.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Erie Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (551 to 486); teachers down 4% (29.4 to 28.1).
About Erie Elementary School
Erie Elementary School is classified as an elementary school. It is located in ERIE, Colorado. There are 486 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 5. That puts enrollment 28% above the 379-student average for elementary schools in Colorado.
Erie Elementary School is one school in St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J, a system of 54 schools with 31,607 students.
White students are 69% of those enrolled at Erie Elementary School. The remaining shares are 17% Hispanic, 8% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Boulder County's population at about 78%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 49%.
There are about 17.3 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Erie Elementary School, which has 28.1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Colorado is 16.6:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Erie Elementary School is about 17%. The gap from the 33% average for public schools in Boulder County is 16 points.
Among Colorado public elementary schools, Erie Elementary School outscored 91%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Erie Elementary School is 10.1 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (66.2% versus 56.1%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Colorado.
For Boulder County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $103,994, about 64% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. There are 86 public schools in the county, enrolling about 42,200, Erie Elementary School among them.
Erie Elementary School's nearest public school is Erie Middle School (about 0.2 miles). There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. By average proficiency, Erie Elementary School is 1st among 9 schools close by.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Small.
The 2020-21 count was 341 students and the 2024-25 count was 486. A difference that large may reflect a change in which grades the school serves.
People who know Erie Elementary School can post here about open houses, carpools, and field trips. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Boulder County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
328,961
Census ACS
Median income
$103,994
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
64%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
86
42,200 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J
- Erie High SchoolHigh · 1,727 students
- Niwot High SchoolHigh · 1,509 students
- Frederick Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,491 students
- Longmont High SchoolHigh · 1,268 students
- Soaring Heights PK-8Elementary · 1,211 students
- Silver Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,208 students
Other schools in ERIE
- Erie High SchoolHigh · 1,727 students
- Soaring Heights PK-8Elementary · 1,211 students
- Erie Middle SchoolMiddle · 762 students
- Meadowlark SchoolElementary · 747 students
- Black Rock ElementaryElementary · 597 students
- Red Hawk ElementaryElementary · 588 students
Other Erie Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Erie Elementary. Erie Elementary School is the largest of the 4.
- Erie Elementary SchoolCLINTON TWP, MI · 474 students
- Erie Elementary SchoolErie, IL · 242 students
- Erie ElementaryErie, KS · 182 students
Nearby schools
- Erie Middle School0.2 mi · 762
- Red Hawk Elementary0.7 mi · 588
- Aspen Ridge Preparatory School1.2 mi · 581
- Highlands Elementary School1.7 mi · 528
- Meadowlark School1.8 mi · 747
- Soaring Heights PK-82.1 mi · 1,211
Frequently asked questions
About Erie Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Erie Elementary School?
Erie Elementary School enrolls approximately 486 students in grades PK-05.
Is Erie Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Erie Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Erie Elementary School have?
Erie Elementary School employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Erie Elementary School?
Student demographics at Erie Elementary School are roughly 69% White, 17% Hispanic, 1% Black, 8% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Erie Elementary School in?
Erie Elementary School is part of St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.