Fairmount Elementary School

Located at 15975 WEST 50TH AVENUE, in GOLDEN, Colorado, Fairmount Elementary School is a high-enrollment elementary-level community that hosts 601 students (grades K through 5), part of Jefferson County School District No. R-1. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Fairmount Elementary School sits 59% larger than that benchmark.

Fairmount Elementary School is one of 148 schools operated by Jefferson County School District No. R-1, a district that hosts 74,935 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Fairmount Elementary School reports that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the resource side, Fairmount Elementary School shows 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.3:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 8% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Jefferson County (around 32%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fairmount Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.0%; this one delivers 67.4%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Jefferson County shows median household earnings sit near $110,656, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Jefferson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students), of which Fairmount Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Compass Montessori - Golden Charter School, roughly 1.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fairmount Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 56.5%.

Fairmount Elementary School operates from a suburban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Fairmount Elementary School's enrollment has fell 11% since 2018, when it stood at 675 (now 601). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 today.

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