Indian Peaks Elementary School

Located at 1335 SOUTH JUDSON, in LONGMONT, Colorado, Indian Peaks Elementary School is a compact K-5 school that works with 214 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J. Enrollment runs roughly 44% leaner than the state mean of about 379.

Indian Peaks Elementary School is one of 54 schools operated by St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J, a district that serves 31,607 students overall.

On demographics, Indian Peaks Elementary School shows that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 6% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Indian Peaks Elementary School has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Boulder County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Indian Peaks Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 15.4%, the actual is 28.0%, a residual of +12.6 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Boulder County put the typical household earns roughly $103,994 per year, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Indian Peaks Elementary School is one of 86 public schools in Boulder County (combined enrollment of about 42,200 students).

The closest other public school is Sunset Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Indian Peaks Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 47.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 29%: 303 students in 2018 compared to 214 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 95% to 90% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Indian Peaks Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.