Red Hawk Elementary

Red Hawk Elementary is one of the heavily attended primary schools in ERIE, Colorado, one of the schools within St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J, with 588 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Red Hawk Elementary sits 55% larger than that benchmark.

St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 31,607 students; Red Hawk Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Red Hawk Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 80% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 8% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Red Hawk Elementary logs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 13% of students at Red Hawk Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Boulder County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Red Hawk Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.1%, the actual is 53.8%, a residual of -5.3 points.

Around the school, Boulder County reports that the typical household earns roughly $103,994 per year, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Boulder County's 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,200 students), Red Hawk Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Erie Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Red Hawk Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Red Hawk Elementary at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 54.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 23%: 764 students in 2018 compared to 588 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 in 2025.

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