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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Fox Creek Elementary School this year?
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Enrollment
436
Elementary
DISTRICT 517 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOUGLAS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. RE 1·NCES 080345001275
Fox Creek Elementary School
6585 COLLEGIATE DRIVE, HIGHLANDS RANCH, CO 80130 · (303) 387-7000 · Douglas County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL436 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 73% of Colorado public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
18%
77 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 28 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 41 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 63 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 56 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 27% smaller than its 6th grade class (56).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
63.7%
CO avg 44.9% . +1.1pp since 2023
Math
52.7%
CO avg 36.1% . +1.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.7% | 52.7% |
| 2023-24 | 62.6% | 51.2% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
59.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.0%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Fox Creek Elementary School
Fox Creek Elementary School's state test result (59.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fox Creek Elementary School this school | 436 | 17.7% | 59.0% |
| Roxborough Intermediate LITTLETON | 430 | 18.6% | 55.3% |
| Governor's Ranch Elementary School LITTLETON | 458 | 21.4% | 56.0% |
| Cougar Run Elementary School HIGHLANDS RANCH | 392 | 20.7% | 64.0% |
| Westridge Elementary School LITTLETON | 400 | 14.8% | 63.1% |
| Eldorado Elementary School HIGHLANDS RANCH | 377 | 17.8% | 69.7% |
Matched among Colorado elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Fox Creek Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Douglas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #163 of 931 | #28 of 58 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.7% | #232 of 940 ▼ 11 | #39 of 58 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.7% | #157 of 946 ▲ 16 | #27 of 58 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 436 | #353 of 1,056 | #33 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #389 of 896 | #19 of 59 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.2% | #548 of 896 | #37 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 17.7% | #856 of 983 | #25 of 60 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.5% | #373 of 664 | #27 of 45 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
436
-43 (-9%) vs 2020
-35% since 2000-01, when it was 673
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 16.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 436 | 29 | 15.0:1 | 18% (77) |
| 2023-24 | 450 | 29 | 15.5:1 | 15% (67) |
| 2022-23 | 479 | 28.6 | 16.8:1 | 8% (39) |
| 2020-21 | 479 | 30 | 16.0:1 | 13% (60) |
| 2017-18 | 516 | 29.6 | 17.5:1 | 10% (54) |
| 2015-16 | 568 | 28 | 20.3:1 | 8% (46) |
| 2010-11 | 534 | 27 | 19.8:1 | 9% (46) |
| 2000-01 | 673 | 38 | 17.7:1 | 3% (21) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fox Creek Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (516 to 436); teachers down 2% (29.6 to 29).
About Fox Creek Elementary School
Fox Creek Elementary School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colorado. It reported 436 students in pre-K through 6 in 2024-25.
Douglas County School District No. Re 1 includes 89 schools. Together they enroll 61,550 students.
Federal enrollment data show Fox Creek Elementary School is 71% White. Other groups make up 15% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Douglas County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school's share is lower. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 46, compared with 70 nationally.
The school's 29 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.0:1. Elementary schools in Colorado average 16.6:1, 1.5 more students per teacher than here. Income data for the school show 18% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Douglas County is similar, at 18%.
Among Colorado public elementary schools, Fox Creek Elementary School outscored 73%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Fox Creek Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Colorado schools: 59.0% actual against 56.0% predicted.
In the surrounding county, Douglas County, median household income comes to about $149,594, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 62% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 3%. The county has 92 public schools and about 63,841 students.
Measured in a straight line, Eagle Ridge Elementary School is about 0.6 miles from Fox Creek Elementary School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 59.0% is above the 56.9% average for nearby schools.
Fox Creek Elementary School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 479 to 436, a 9% decline.
Fox Creek Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as special education services, counseling, and support programs. You can also rate the school on this page.
Douglas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
377,150
Census ACS
Median income
$149,594
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
62%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
92
63,841 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Douglas County School District No. Re 1
- American AcademyElementary · 2,803 students
- Rock Canyon High SchoolHigh · 2,325 students
- Legend High SchoolHigh · 2,206 students
- Mountain Vista High SchoolHigh · 2,169 students
- Chaparral High SchoolHigh · 2,007 students
- Castle View High SchoolHigh · 1,938 students
Other schools in HIGHLANDS RANCH
- Rock Canyon High SchoolHigh · 2,325 students
- Mountain Vista High SchoolHigh · 2,169 students
- Thunderridge High SchoolHigh · 1,820 students
- STEM School Highlands RanchCombined · 1,394 students
- Skyview AcademyCombined · 1,358 students
- Highlands Ranch High SchoolHigh · 1,323 students
Other Fox Creek Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Fox Creek Elementary. Fox Creek Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Fox Creek Elementary SchoolBloomington, IL · 292 students
Nearby schools
- Eagle Ridge Elementary School0.6 mi · 571
- Cresthill Middle School1.0 mi · 558
- Redstone Elementary School1.0 mi · 398
- Skyview Academy1.1 mi · 1,358
- Highlands Ranch High School1.1 mi · 1,323
- Acres Green Elementary School1.1 mi · 341
Frequently asked questions
About Fox Creek Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Fox Creek Elementary School?
Fox Creek Elementary School enrolls approximately 436 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Fox Creek Elementary School serve?
Fox Creek Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Fox Creek Elementary School?
Approximately 15.0:1 students per teacher at Fox Creek Elementary School.
How diverse is Fox Creek Elementary School?
Fox Creek Elementary School reports a student body of 71% White, 15% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Fox Creek Elementary School?
Fox Creek Elementary School is overseen by Douglas County School District No. Re 1 in Douglas County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.