Hayden Valley Elementary School

Hayden Valley Elementary School is one of the small elementary schools in HAYDEN, Colorado, one of the schools within Hayden School District No. Re 1, with 232 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 39% below the state mean of about 379.

Within Hayden School District No. Re 1, which oversees 3 schools and 444 students, Hayden Valley Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Hayden Valley Elementary School reports that 80% of the student body identifies as White; the rest is composed of 17% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Routt County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school employs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 24% of students at Hayden Valley Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hayden Valley Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 52.1%; this one comes in at 24.1%, -28.0 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Routt County put the typical household earns roughly $106,489 per year, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Hayden Valley Elementary School is one of 15 public schools in Routt County (combined enrollment of about 3,419 students).

Hayden Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Hayden Valley Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hayden Valley Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 27.0%.

Hayden Valley Elementary School operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hayden Valley Elementary School has ticked up 12%, going from 207 students in 2018 to 232 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 11% to 17% over that span.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.