Fireside Elementary School

Fireside Elementary School operates as a mid-sized primary school in LOUISVILLE, Colorado, overseen by Boulder Valley School District No. Re2. Current enrollment sits at 431 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 56 schools in Boulder Valley School District No. Re2 (27,988 students total), Fireside Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Fireside Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment; the rest looks like 10% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 15% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Boulder County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fireside Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.4%, the actual is 66.0%, a residual of +8.6 points.

In the area at large, 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. Fireside Elementary School is one of 86 public schools in Boulder County (combined enrollment of about 42,200 students).

Coal Creek Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fireside Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 60.8%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 10%: 477 students in 2018 compared to 431 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 7% to 3% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.

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