Gateway Elementary School

Gateway Elementary School is an elementary school of intimate scale in WOODLAND PARK, Colorado, operated by Woodland Park School District No. Re-2, works with 207 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 45% leaner than the state mean of about 379.

Across the 6 schools in Woodland Park School District No. Re-2 (1,951 students total), Gateway Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Gateway Elementary School records that White students make up the majority at 73%; the rest reads as 19% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Gateway Elementary School has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Gateway Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.7%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Teller County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $85,361 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Gateway Elementary School is one of 8 public schools in Teller County (combined enrollment of about 2,249 students).

Woodland Park High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Gateway Elementary School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 6 years. Over the past 6-year window, the student count contracted 45%: 373 students in 2018 compared to 207 in 2024. Hispanic enrollment moved from 11% to 19% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2024.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Gateway Elementary School community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.