Mount Carbon Elementary School

Mount Carbon Elementary School is a medium-sized K-5 school in LITTLETON, Colorado, run under Jefferson County School District No. R-1. The school educates 367 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Mount Carbon Elementary School is one of 148 schools operated by Jefferson County School District No. R-1, a district that serves 74,935 students overall.

Demographically, Mount Carbon Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 23% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the resource side, Mount Carbon Elementary School logs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Jefferson County (around 32%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mount Carbon Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.8%, the actual is 50.1%, a residual of -4.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Jefferson County shows 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%. Mount Carbon Elementary School is one of 168 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students).

Dakota Ridge Senior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mount Carbon Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 47.5%.

Mount Carbon Elementary School operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Mount Carbon Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 25% since 2018, when it stood at 491 (now 367). White enrollment moved from 71% to 66% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.9:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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