Pine Grove Elementary School

Pine Grove Elementary School is a moderately sized K-5 school in PARKER, Colorado, part of Douglas County School District No. Re 1. The school caters to 480 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Pine Grove Elementary School sits 27% bigger than that benchmark.

Douglas County School District No. Re 1 runs 89 schools in total, collectively educating 61,550 students. Pine Grove Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Pine Grove Elementary School lists that 76% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Pine Grove Elementary School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 10% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pine Grove Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.4%, the actual is 57.8%, a residual of -2.6 points.

Across the wider county, Douglas County reports that median household income runs about $149,594, roughly 62% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Douglas County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,841 students), Pine Grove Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

North Star Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pine Grove Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 58.3%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 18%: 582 students in 2018 compared to 480 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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