Outback Preschool

Outback Preschool is a very small elementary school located in AURORA, Colorado. Its grade span covers pre-K, with 81 students on the rolls. On average, elementary schools in Colorado enroll around 379, and this school is 79% below that mark.

Across its 70 schools, Cherry Creek School District enrolls 52,099 students. Outback Preschool is one of those schools.

The largest racial or ethnic group at Outback Preschool is White, with 33% of students. Other groups make up 26% Hispanic, 17% Black, 11% Asian, and 11% multiracial. Arapahoe County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school's share is lower. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 77%.

Classroom staffing at Outback Preschool totals 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 20.3:1. Compared with the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado, this school's ratio is higher.

For the population of Arapahoe County, median household income comes to about $101,087, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Arapahoe County's 176 public schools enroll about 115,502 students and include Outback Preschool.

Of the public schools around it, Outback Preschool is closest to Thunder Ridge Middle School, about 0.2 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment was 81 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 58.

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