Parker Core Knowledge

Located at 11661 NORTH PINE DRIVE, in PARKER, Colorado, Parker Core Knowledge is a high-enrollment K-5 school that educates 705 students (grades K through 8), one of the schools within Douglas County School District No. Re 1. That puts it 86% bigger than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Parker Core Knowledge is one of 89 schools operated by Douglas County School District No. Re 1, a district that serves 61,550 students overall.

On demographics, Parker Core Knowledge lists that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment. Other groups include 28% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Parker Core Knowledge tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 9% of students at Parker Core Knowledge qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Douglas County (around 18%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Parker Core Knowledge ranks in the top 10% of Colorado public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 61.0%; Parker Core Knowledge posts 83.5%, +22.4 points above that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Douglas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $149,594 per year, roughly 62% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Douglas County runs 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,841 students), of which Parker Core Knowledge is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pine Lane Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Parker Core Knowledge comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 56.5%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting. Parker Core Knowledge operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 703 students in 2018 compared to 705 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 75% to 57%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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