Leawood Elementary School

Located at 6155 WEST LEAWOOD DRIVE, in LITTLETON, Colorado, Leawood Elementary School is a close-knit elementary-level community that teaches 321 students (grades pre-K through 6), overseen by Jefferson County School District No. R-1.

Within Jefferson County School District No. R-1, which oversees 148 schools and 74,935 students, Leawood Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Leawood Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. Other groups include 21% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the income-and-resources front, Leawood Elementary School shows 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Leawood Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 50.0%, a residual of -0.3 points.

In the area at large, Jefferson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $110,656 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Jefferson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students), of which Leawood Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Blue Heron Elementary School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Leawood Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Leawood Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 43.7%.

Leawood Elementary School operates from a suburban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Leawood Elementary School's enrollment has fell 25% since 2018, when it stood at 429 (now 321). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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