Milliken Elementary School

Milliken Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary-level community in MILLIKEN, Colorado, run under Weld County School District No. Re-5J, teaches 472 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Milliken Elementary School sits 25% larger than that benchmark.

Within Weld County School District No. Re-5J, which oversees 7 schools and 4,049 students, Milliken Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Milliken Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 44% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Weld County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Milliken Elementary School has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 49% of students at Milliken Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Milliken Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 36.8%; actual is 22.6%, a gap of -14.2 points.

Around the school, Weld County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,097, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Weld County's 116 public schools (combined enrollment of about 61,274 students), Milliken Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Knowledge Quest Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Milliken Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Milliken Elementary School at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 33.9%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Milliken Elementary School has shrank 19%, going from 583 students in 2018 to 472 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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