Prairie Elementary School

Set in NEW RAYMER, Colorado, Prairie Elementary School is a very small elementary-level community, overseen by School District No. Re-11 in the county of Weld and State of. It hosts 72 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 81% smaller than the state mean of about 379.

Within School District No. Re-11 in the county of Weld and State of, which oversees 2 schools and 163 students, Prairie Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Prairie Elementary School reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 6% Hispanic, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Around 25% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Weld County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Prairie Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 51.6%; actual is 21.7%, a gap of -29.8 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Weld County put median household earnings sit near $97,097, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Prairie Elementary School is one of 116 public schools in Weld County (combined enrollment of about 61,274 students).

Nearest neighbor: Prairie Junior-Senior High School, around 0.0 miles off. On composite proficiency, Prairie Elementary School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Prairie Elementary School has contracted 33%, going from 107 students in 2018 to 72 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 94% to 90% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

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