Gold Hill Elementary School

Gold Hill Elementary School operates as an one-room-style elementary-level community in GOLD HILL, Colorado, run under Boulder Valley School District No. Re2. Current enrollment sits at 10 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 97% below the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Gold Hill Elementary School is one of 56 schools operated by Boulder Valley School District No. Re2, a district that hosts 27,988 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Gold Hill Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%); the rest comes out to 10% Hispanic, 10% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Boulder County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 3.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average.

In the surrounding community, census data for Boulder County shows the typical household earns roughly $103,994 per year, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Boulder County's 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,200 students), Gold Hill Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Jamestown Elementary School, around 3.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Gold Hill Elementary School has fell 47%, going from 19 students in 2018 to 10 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 89% to 80% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 8.0:1 in 2018 to 3.0:1 today.

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