Lukas Elementary School

Lukas Elementary School is one of the mid-tier K-5 schools in WESTMINSTER, Colorado, one of the schools within Jefferson County School District No. R-1, with 402 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Jefferson County School District No. R-1 runs 148 schools in total, collectively educating 74,935 students. Lukas Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Lukas Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 27% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Lukas Elementary School logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 31% of students at Lukas Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lukas Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.9%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Jefferson County put median household income runs about $110,656, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Lukas Elementary School is one of 168 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students).

Wayne Carle Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lukas Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lukas Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 39.3%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 481 students in 2018 compared to 402 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 71% to 61% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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