Prairie Crossing Elementary School

As a sizable primary school in PARKER, Colorado, Prairie Crossing Elementary School educates 612 students from grades pre-K through 6, run under Douglas County School District No. Re 1. Compared to the state average of about 379 students per school, that is 61% bigger than typical.

Douglas County School District No. Re 1 comprises 89 schools with combined enrollment of 61,550 students; Prairie Crossing Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Prairie Crossing Elementary School reports that White students make up the majority at 71%; the rest comes out to 12% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 16% of students at Prairie Crossing Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Prairie Crossing Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.1%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Douglas County) records that the typical household earns roughly $149,594 per year, 62% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), Prairie Crossing Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Gold Rush Elementary 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. On composite proficiency, Prairie Crossing Elementary School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 56.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Prairie Crossing Elementary School has edged down 7%, going from 657 students in 2018 to 612 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 today.

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