Glenwood Springs Elementary School

Set in GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado, Glenwood Springs Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary-level community, run under Roaring Fork School District No. Re-1. It teaches 452 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Within Roaring Fork School District No. Re-1, which oversees 14 schools and 5,839 students, Glenwood Springs Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Glenwood Springs Elementary School logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 73%. The remainder looks like 26% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Garfield County (around 50%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Glenwood Springs Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.1%, the actual is 23.7%, a residual of -4.4 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Garfield County) reports that median household income runs about $91,131, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Garfield County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,790 students), of which Glenwood Springs Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Yampah Mountain School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Glenwood Springs Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Glenwood Springs Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.0%.

Glenwood Springs Elementary School operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Glenwood Springs Elementary School has contracted 19%, going from 560 students in 2018 to 452 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 67% to 73% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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