Rocky Mountain Elementary School

Rocky Mountain Elementary School operates as a compact elementary school in WESTMINSTER, Colorado, run under Adams 12 Five Star Schools. Current enrollment sits at 318 students spanning grades K through 5.

Within Adams 12 Five Star Schools, which oversees 54 schools and 34,466 students, Rocky Mountain Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Rocky Mountain Elementary School records that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 14% White, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Rocky Mountain Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Adams County (around 62%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rocky Mountain Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 11.6%; this one delivers 14.9%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Adams County shows the typical household earns roughly $94,571 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Rocky Mountain Elementary School is one of 171 public schools in Adams County (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students).

Nearest neighbor: Sunset Ridge PK-8, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rocky Mountain Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 21.1%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 30%: 455 students in 2018 compared to 318 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 74% to 81% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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