Fall River Elementary School

Fall River Elementary School, a reasonably sized elementary-level community in LONGMONT, Colorado, run under St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J, caters to 520 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 379 students per school, that is 37% bigger than typical.

Fall River Elementary School is one of 54 schools operated by St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J, a district that hosts 31,607 students overall.

Demographically, Fall River Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 65% of enrollment; the rest looks like 27% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Boulder County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.0:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Fall River Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Colorado public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 48.4%; Fall River Elementary School posts 61.5%, +13.1 points above that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Boulder County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,994 per year, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Boulder County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,200 students), of which Fall River Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Trail Ridge Middle School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fall River Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Fall River Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 28.9%.

Fall River Elementary School operates from a suburban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 8%: 563 students in 2018 compared to 520 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 75% to 65% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 today.

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