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Littleton Prep Charter School
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsWhat this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Littleton Prep Charter School
Littleton Prep Charter School operates as a mid-tier elementary campus in LITTLETON, Colorado, overseen by Littleton School District No. 6 in the county of Arapahoe. Current enrollment sits at 498 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Littleton Prep Charter School sits 31% larger than that benchmark.
Littleton School District No. 6 in the county of Arapahoe runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 13,109 students. Littleton Prep Charter School is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, Littleton Prep Charter School reports that 67% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 22% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian.
On the resource side, Littleton Prep Charter School logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Around 27% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Arapahoe County (around 50%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Littleton Prep Charter School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.2%.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Arapahoe County shows median household income runs about $101,087, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Arapahoe County runs 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students), of which Littleton Prep Charter School is one.
The closest other public school is Field Elementary School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Littleton Prep Charter School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Littleton Prep Charter School at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 38.2%.
Littleton Prep Charter School operates from a residential location. Littleton Prep Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Over the past 7-year window. Littleton Prep Charter School's enrollment has edged down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 612 (now 498). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 71% to 67%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.
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