Polton Community Elementary School

Polton Community Elementary School is one of the reasonably sized primary schools in AURORA, Colorado, one of the schools within Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah, with 466 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 23% larger than the state mean of about 379.

Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah comprises 70 schools with combined enrollment of 52,099 students; Polton Community Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Polton Community Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is White (31%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 26% Hispanic, 23% Black, 14% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Arapahoe County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Polton Community Elementary School records 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Polton Community Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.8%.

In the broader community, census data for Arapahoe County shows median household income runs about $101,087, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Arapahoe County runs 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students), of which Polton Community Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Eastridge Community Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Polton Community Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 16.5%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 13%: 536 students in 2018 compared to 466 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 39% to 31% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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