King-Murphy Elementary School

Located at 425 CIRCLE K ROAD, in EVERGREEN, Colorado, King-Murphy Elementary School is an one-room-style elementary-level community that caters to 151 students (grades pre-K through 6), run under Clear Creek School District No. Re-1. That puts it 60% leaner than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

King-Murphy Elementary School is one of 5 schools operated by Clear Creek School District No. Re-1, a district that caters to 634 students overall.

On the student-mix side, King-Murphy Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Clear Creek County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Clear Creek County runs at roughly 30%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, King-Murphy Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.3%, the actual is 50.4%, a residual of -5.9 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Clear Creek County put the typical household earns roughly $94,577 per year, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Clear Creek County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 634 students), of which King-Murphy Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Rocky Mountain Academy of Evergreen, roughly 3.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, King-Murphy Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.1%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at King-Murphy Elementary School has increased 14%, going from 132 students in 2018 to 151 in 2025.

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