Marshdale Elementary School
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsWhat this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 Marshdale Elementary School
Set in EVERGREEN, Colorado, Marshdale Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary-level community, one of the schools within Jefferson County School District No. R-1. It enrolls 375 students across grades pre-K through 5.
Marshdale Elementary School is one of 148 schools operated by Jefferson County School District No. R-1, a district that instructs 74,935 students overall.
Looking at the student body, Marshdale Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). Beyond that, the school logs 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.
Looking at school resources, The school lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 7% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Jefferson County's rate of about 32%.
After controlling for student poverty, Marshdale Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 62.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 68.0%.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate median household income runs about $110,656, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Jefferson County's 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students), Marshdale Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Evergreen High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Marshdale Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Marshdale Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 59.6%.
The school occupies a low-density site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Marshdale Elementary School has edged up 15%, going from 325 students in 2018 to 375 in 2025.
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