Meadowood Child Development Center

Set in AURORA, Colorado, Meadowood Child Development Center is a small K-5 school, operated by Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the counties of Adams and A. It serves 166 students across grade pre-K. Compared to the state average of about 379 students per school, that is 56% smaller than typical.

Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the counties of Adams and A runs 59 schools in total, collectively educating 39,464 students. Meadowood Child Development Center is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Meadowood Child Development Center lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 27% Black, 13% White, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 22% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 55.3:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 58% of students at Meadowood Child Development Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Arapahoe County indicate median household income runs about $101,087, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Meadowood Child Development Center is one of 176 public schools in Arapahoe County (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students).

Dartmouth Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Meadowood Child Development Center.

Meadowood Child Development Center operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 43%: 290 students in 2018 compared to 166 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 33% to 46% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 87.9:1 in 2018 to 55.3:1 in 2025.

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