Indian Ridge Elementary School

Indian Ridge Elementary School operates as a mid-tier elementary campus in AURORA, Colorado, overseen by Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah. Current enrollment sits at 410 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah runs 70 schools in total, collectively educating 52,099 students. Indian Ridge Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Indian Ridge Elementary School reports that White students make up the majority at 62%; the rest comes out to 12% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 9% Black, 7% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Arapahoe County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Indian Ridge Elementary School logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Arapahoe County (around 50%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Indian Ridge Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.4%.

Across the wider county, census data for Arapahoe County shows median household earnings sit near $101,087, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Indian Ridge Elementary School is one of 176 public schools in Arapahoe County (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students).

Laredo Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Indian Ridge Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 34.3%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Indian Ridge Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 26% since 2018, when it stood at 555 (now 410). The Asian share of enrollment decreased from 12% to 7% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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