Fox Creek Elementary School

Fox Creek Elementary School is one of the mid-tier K-5 schools in HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colorado, part of Douglas County School District No. Re 1, with 436 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6.

Fox Creek Elementary School is one of 89 schools operated by Douglas County School District No. Re 1, a district that teaches 61,550 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Fox Creek Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 71%. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Douglas County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Fox Creek Elementary School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 18% of students at Fox Creek Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Fox Creek Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.0%, the actual is 59.0%, a residual of +3.0 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Douglas County put the typical household earns roughly $149,594 per year, about 62% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Douglas County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,841 students), Fox Creek Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Eagle Ridge Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fox Creek Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Fox Creek Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 56.9%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Fox Creek Elementary School's enrollment has fell 16% since 2018, when it stood at 516 (now 436). White enrollment moved from 76% to 71% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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