Harris Park Elementary School

As a cozy elementary campus in WESTMINSTER, Colorado, Harris Park Elementary School serves 234 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Westminster Public Schools. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Harris Park Elementary School sits 38% below that benchmark.

Westminster Public Schools runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 7,724 students. Harris Park Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Harris Park Elementary School reports that 66% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 24% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 43% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Adams County's rate of about 62%.

With demographic context factored in, Harris Park Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 18.8%; this one delivers 15.4%.

In the area at large, census data for Adams County shows median household income runs about $94,571, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Adams County's 171 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students), Harris Park Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Hidden Lake Secondary, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Harris Park Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 20.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Harris Park Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 28% since 2018, when it stood at 324 (now 234). White enrollment moved from 18% to 24% across the same window.

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