Foothill Elementary School

Set in BOULDER, Colorado, Foothill Elementary School is a moderately sized K-5 school, one of the schools within Boulder Valley School District No. Re2. It serves 419 students across grades K through 5.

Boulder Valley School District No. Re2 runs 56 schools in total, collectively educating 27,988 students. Foothill Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Foothill Elementary School records that 76% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 2% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Boulder County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 13% of students at Foothill Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Boulder County (around 33%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Foothill Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.1%; this one delivers 71.6%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Boulder County indicate median household earnings sit near $103,994, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Boulder County's 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,200 students), Foothill Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Columbine Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Foothill Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 44.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Foothill Elementary School has edged down 15%, going from 494 students in 2018 to 419 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 76% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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