Platteville Elementary School

Platteville Elementary School, a close-knit K-5 school in PLATTEVILLE, Colorado, one of the schools within Weld County Reorganized School District No. Re-1, enrolls 317 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Platteville Elementary School is one of 6 schools operated by Weld County Reorganized School District No. Re-1, a district that educates 1,727 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Platteville Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 35% White. By comparison, Weld County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Platteville Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 65% of students at Platteville Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Weld County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Platteville Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.1%; this one delivers 23.8%.

In the broader community, Weld County reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,097 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Platteville Elementary School is one of 116 public schools in Weld County (combined enrollment of about 61,274 students).

Nearest neighbor: South Valley Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Platteville Elementary School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 36.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Platteville Elementary School's enrollment has declined 23% since 2018, when it stood at 410 (now 317). White enrollment moved from 46% to 35% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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