Kendrick Lakes Elementary School

Kendrick Lakes Elementary School is a medium-sized primary school in LAKEWOOD, Colorado, overseen by Jefferson County School District No. R-1. The school instructs 443 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Jefferson County School District No. R-1 comprises 148 schools with combined enrollment of 74,935 students; Kendrick Lakes Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Kendrick Lakes Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment; the rest reads as 29% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Kendrick Lakes Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 30% of students at Kendrick Lakes Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Kendrick Lakes Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 52.2%.

In the area at large, Jefferson County reports that median household earnings sit near $110,656, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Jefferson County's 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students), Kendrick Lakes Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Patterson International School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kendrick Lakes Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Kendrick Lakes Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 27.6%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Kendrick Lakes Elementary School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 448 (now 443). Class-load math has fell: from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

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