Penrose Elementary School

Penrose Elementary School is a cozy K-5 school in PENROSE, Colorado, overseen by Fremont Re-2. The school enrolls 281 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 26% below the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Penrose Elementary School is one of 3 schools operated by Fremont Re-2, a district that teaches 1,294 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Penrose Elementary School logs that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 15% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the resource side, Penrose Elementary School reports 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Penrose Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Penrose Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.2%, the actual is 23.5%, a residual of -11.8 points.

In the area at large, Fremont County reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,664 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Fremont County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,640 students), of which Penrose Elementary School is one.

Florence Jr./Sr. High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.1 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 2 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Penrose Elementary School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 33.1%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 9%: 258 students in 2018 compared to 281 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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