Maple Grove Elementary School

Maple Grove Elementary School is an elementary campus of average-sized scale in GOLDEN, Colorado, one of the schools within Jefferson County School District No. R-1, works with 390 students in grades pre-K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Maple Grove Elementary School shows that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 9% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 14% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Jefferson County (around 32%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Maple Grove Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.5%, the actual is 63.7%, a residual of +5.2 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Jefferson County put the typical household earns roughly $110,656 per year, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jefferson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students), of which Maple Grove Elementary School is one.

Manning Options School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Maple Grove Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Maple Grove Elementary School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 48.0%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 8%: 360 students in 2018 compared to 390 in 2025.

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