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Enrollment
423
Elementary
DISTRICT 456 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 080531000888
Runyon Elementary School
7455 SOUTH ELATI STREET, LITTLETON, CO 80120 · (303) 347-4650 · Arapahoe County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL423 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 89% of Colorado public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.6:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
86 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 65 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (79).
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
65.8%
CO avg 44.9% . +0.1pp since 2023
Math
54.0%
CO avg 36.1% . -4.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.8% | 54.0% |
| 2023-24 | 65.7% | 58.5% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
64.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.4%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Runyon Elementary School
Runyon Elementary School's state test result (64.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Runyon Elementary School this school | 423 | 20.3% | 64.0% |
| Legacy Academy ELIZABETH | 428 | 19.4% | 36.0% |
| Lewis-Palmer Elementary School MONUMENT | 409 | 19.1% | 53.4% |
| Wingate Elementary School GRAND JUNCTION | 363 | 19.8% | 71.8% |
| Gold Camp Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 435 | 16.3% | 65.8% |
| Strawberry Park Elementary School STEAMBOAT SPRINGS | 368 | 19.8% | 64.7% |
Matched among Colorado elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Runyon Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Arapahoe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #113 of 931 | #13 of 96 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #215 of 940 ▼ 81 | #26 of 96 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.8% | #128 of 946 ▲ 5 | #11 of 96 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 423 | #386 of 1,056 | #71 of 104 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.5:1 | #616 of 896 | #70 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.7% | #794 of 896 | #95 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.3% | #825 of 983 | #84 of 101 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.1% | #421 of 664 | #42 of 70 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
423
-28 (-6%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 458
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
was 18.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 423 | 25.6 | 16.5:1 | 20% (86) |
| 2023-24 | 427 | 26.6 | 16.1:1 | 16% (70) |
| 2022-23 | 467 | 25.4 | 18.4:1 | 8% (38) |
| 2020-21 | 451 | 25 | 18.0:1 | 8% (34) |
| 2017-18 | 487 | 25.6 | 19.0:1 | 8% (40) |
| 2015-16 | 460 | 24 | 19.2:1 | 9% (40) |
| 2010-11 | 443 | 23 | 19.3:1 | 12% (52) |
| 2000-01 | 435 | 24 | 18.1:1 | 3% (12) |
| 1990-91 | 458 | 22 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Runyon Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (487 to 423); teachers unchanged (25.6 to 25.6).
About Runyon Elementary School
Runyon Elementary School is an elementary school located in LITTLETON, Colorado, in Arapahoe County. Its grade span covers kindergarten through 5, with 423 students on the rolls.
Littleton Public Schools includes 20 schools. Together they enroll 13,109 students.
Of every 100 students at Runyon Elementary School, about 83 are White. The remaining students are 10% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. Census figures show Arapahoe County is about 59% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 31, compared with 70 nationally.
On staff are 25.6 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 16.5:1. It is about the same as the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. About 20% of students at Runyon Elementary School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Arapahoe County average 50%.
On the allk12 Grade, Runyon Elementary School lands at A, ahead of 89% of Colorado public elementary schools.
Compared with Colorado schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Runyon Elementary School's results are 9.6 points above predicted: 64.0% against 54.4%.
Looking at the county, Arapahoe County, the median household earns about $101,087 a year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Runyon Elementary School, Arapahoe County has 176 public schools.
About 0.3 miles separate Runyon Elementary School from the closest public school, Heritage High School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 55.7%; Runyon Elementary School's is 64.0%, ranking 2nd of 8.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 6% decrease, from 451 to 423. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 18.0:1 to 16.5:1.
Runyon Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Arapahoe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
659,844
Census ACS
Median income
$101,087
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
47%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
176
115,502 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Littleton Public Schools
- Arapahoe High SchoolHigh · 1,748 students
- Heritage High SchoolHigh · 1,748 students
- Littleton High SchoolHigh · 1,187 students
- Newton Middle SchoolMiddle · 781 students
- Ford ElementaryElementary · 653 students
- Euclid Middle SchoolMiddle · 631 students
Other schools in LITTLETON
- Chatfield High SchoolHigh · 1,808 students
- Heritage High SchoolHigh · 1,748 students
- Columbine High SchoolHigh · 1,710 students
- Dakota Ridge Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,277 students
- Littleton High SchoolHigh · 1,187 students
- Rocky Heights Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,129 students
Nearby schools
- Heritage High School0.3 mi · 1,748
- Euclid Middle School0.9 mi · 631
- Littleton Academy0.9 mi · 455
- Hopkins Elementary School0.9 mi · 372
- The Village ECE1.3 mi · 336
- John Wesley Powell Middle School1.4 mi · 509
Frequently asked questions
About Runyon Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Runyon Elementary School?
Runyon Elementary School enrolls approximately 423 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Runyon Elementary School serve?
Runyon Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Runyon Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Runyon Elementary School is approximately 16.5:1 (26 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Runyon Elementary School?
Runyon Elementary School reports a student body of 83% White, 10% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Runyon Elementary School public or private?
Runyon Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Littleton Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.