Ford Elementary

Ford Elementary, a large elementary school in CENTENNIAL, Colorado, operated by Littleton School District No. 6 in the county of Arapahoe, enrolls 653 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 72% above the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Within Littleton School District No. 6 in the county of Arapahoe, which oversees 20 schools and 13,109 students, Ford Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ford Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%); the rest looks like 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 59% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Ford Elementary reports 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Arapahoe County (around 50%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ford Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.8%, the actual is 60.3%, a residual of +1.5 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Arapahoe County shows median household earnings sit near $101,087, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Arapahoe County runs 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students), of which Ford Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Newton Middle School, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ford Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 59.9%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.