Niwot Elementary School

Niwot Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack primary school in NIWOT, Colorado, one of the schools within St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J. The school hosts 411 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 54 schools in St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J (31,607 students total), Niwot Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Niwot Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). The remainder is composed of 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Niwot Elementary School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 9% of students at Niwot Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Boulder County (around 33%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Niwot Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 61.0%; this one delivers 77.8%, a residual of +16.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Boulder County indicate median household income runs about $103,994, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Boulder County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,200 students), of which Niwot Elementary School is one.

Niwot High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Niwot Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 52.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Niwot Elementary School has declined 8%, going from 445 students in 2018 to 411 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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