Rooney Ranch Elementary School

As a moderately sized K-5 school in LAKEWOOD, Colorado, Rooney Ranch Elementary School instructs 492 students from grades K through 5, operated by Jefferson County School District No. R-1. That puts it 30% bigger than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Rooney Ranch Elementary School is one of 148 schools operated by Jefferson County School District No. R-1, a district that serves 74,935 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Rooney Ranch Elementary School reports that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 11% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. Compared to Jefferson County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 7% of students at Rooney Ranch Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rooney Ranch Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.3%; this one delivers 66.8%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $110,656 per year, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Rooney Ranch Elementary School is one of 168 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students).

Hutchinson Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rooney Ranch Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rooney Ranch Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 44.9%.

Rooney Ranch Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 15%: 580 students in 2018 compared to 492 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for Rooney Ranch Elementary School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.