Lawrence Elementary School

Lawrence Elementary School, an average-sized primary school in ARVADA, Colorado, part of Jefferson County School District No. R-1, serves 412 students, covering grades K through 5.

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

On demographics, Lawrence Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 38% White, 7% multiracial, 2% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

In terms of school funding signals, Lawrence Elementary School records 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Around 74% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Lawrence Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.0%; this one delivers 30.6%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) shows that median household earnings sit near $110,656, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Jefferson County's 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students), Lawrence Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Arvada K-8, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lawrence Elementary School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 26.0%.

Lawrence Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Lawrence Elementary School's enrollment has ticked up 16% since 2018, when it stood at 354 (now 412). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 37% to 52%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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