Montessori Peaks Charter Academy

As an average-sized elementary campus in LITTLETON, Colorado, Montessori Peaks Charter Academy enrolls 444 students from grades pre-K through 8, one of the schools within Jefferson County School District No. R-1.

Jefferson County School District No. R-1 runs 148 schools in total, collectively educating 74,935 students. Montessori Peaks Charter Academy is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Montessori Peaks Charter Academy shows that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 17% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 2% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Jefferson County's rate of about 32%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Montessori Peaks Charter Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 51.2%.

In the broader community, census data for Jefferson County shows median household income runs about $110,656, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jefferson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students), of which Montessori Peaks Charter Academy is one.

Westridge Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Montessori Peaks Charter Academy comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.7%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting. Montessori Peaks Charter Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 16%: 528 students in 2018 compared to 444 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 78% to 72% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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