Mesa Elementary School

Located at 1575 LEHIGH STREET, in BOULDER, Colorado, Mesa Elementary School is a compact primary school that serves 250 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Boulder Valley School District No. Re2. Enrollment runs roughly 34% smaller than the state mean of about 379.

Boulder Valley School District No. Re2 comprises 56 schools with combined enrollment of 27,988 students; Mesa Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Mesa Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 10% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Mesa Elementary School logs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Around 14% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Boulder County (around 33%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mesa 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 70.1%, a residual of +11.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Boulder County put the typical household earns roughly $103,994 per year, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Boulder County's 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,200 students), Mesa Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Bear Creek Elementary 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 Mesa Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Mesa Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 72.8%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 8%: 272 students in 2018 compared to 250 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 86% to 77% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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