Miller Special Education

Miller Special Education operates as a very small K-12 campus in LAKEWOOD, Colorado, one of the schools within Jefferson County School District No. R-1. Current enrollment sits at 97 students spanning grades pre-K through 12. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 523 students each, so Miller Special Education sits 81% below that benchmark.

Jefferson County School District No. R-1 comprises 148 schools with combined enrollment of 74,935 students; Miller Special Education is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Miller Special Education reports that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 25% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Miller Special Education reports 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 5.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.3:1 average. Roughly 38% of students at Miller Special Education qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $110,656 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Jefferson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students), of which Miller Special Education is one.

Dennison Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Miller Special Education operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 3%: 94 students in 2018 compared to 97 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share shrank from 31% to 25%.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.