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What's something Sagebrush Elementary School does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
354
Elementary
DISTRICT 478 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHERRY CREEK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 080291000202
Sagebrush Elementary School
14700 EAST TEMPLE PLACE, AURORA, CO 80015 · (720) 886-8300 · Arapahoe County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL354 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% of Colorado public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
10.6:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
184 students
DISTRICT 38% · STATE 50%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 21 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 53 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 6% larger than its 5th grade class (53).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
25.6%
CO avg 44.9% . -2.4pp since 2023
Math
28.9%
CO avg 36.1% . +5.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.6% | 28.9% |
| 2023-24 | 28.0% | 23.5% |
% 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
25.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.2%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 Sagebrush Elementary School
Sagebrush Elementary School's state test result (25.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sagebrush Elementary School this school | 354 | 52.0% | 25.4% |
| Meadow Point Elementary School AURORA | 401 | 59.9% | 28.6% |
| Summit Elementary School AURORA | 337 | 49.6% | 27.4% |
| Sunrise Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 506 | 49.6% | 30.3% |
| Mountainside Elementary School FORT CARSON | 346 | 44.2% | 24.1% |
| French Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 491 | 48.5% | 38.8% |
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 Sagebrush Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Arapahoe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.4% | #669 of 931 | #62 of 96 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.9% | #558 of 940 ▲ 70 | #54 of 96 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.6% | #729 of 946 ▼ 45 | #69 of 96 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 354 | #553 of 1,056 | #84 of 104 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.6:1 | #15 of 896 | #1 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.0% | #50 of 896 | #29 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.0% | #454 of 983 | #53 of 101 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.7% | #326 of 664 | #27 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
354
-58 (-14%) vs 2020
-43% since 1990-91, when it was 624
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
was 16.5:1
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 | 354 | 33.5 | 10.6:1 | 52% (184) |
| 2023-24 | 389 | 31.5 | 12.3:1 | 58% (226) |
| 2022-23 | 417 | 29.6 | 14.1:1 | 49% (204) |
| 2020-21 | 412 | 25 | 16.5:1 | 47% (192) |
| 2017-18 | 430 | 25.2 | 17.1:1 | 47% (202) |
| 2015-16 | 529 | 32 | 16.5:1 | 44% (235) |
| 2010-11 | 567 | 35 | 16.2:1 | 40% (226) |
| 2000-01 | 637 | 37 | 17.2:1 | 8% (51) |
| 1990-91 | 624 | 30 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sagebrush Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (430 to 354); teachers up 33% (25.2 to 33.5).
About Sagebrush Elementary School
Sagebrush Elementary School runs as a medium-sized elementary school in AURORA, Colorado. A total of 354 students attend the school, which covers pre-K through 5.
Cherry Creek School District operates 70 schools. Combined enrollment is 52,099 students.
At Sagebrush Elementary School, the largest share of students is White, at 41%. The next largest groups are 32% Hispanic, 12% Black, 10% multiracial, and 4% Asian. The school's White share is 18 points below the 59% share among Arapahoe County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 70% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 10.6:1, with 33.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is 6.0 students per teacher below the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 52% of enrollment. For comparison, public schools in Arapahoe County average 50%.
Sagebrush Elementary School is graded D by allk12, scoring above 13% of Colorado public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Sagebrush Elementary School would be expected to post about 35.2%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 25.4%.
Arapahoe County has these Census figures: the median household income is $101,087, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 47%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. In all, Arapahoe County has 176 public schools and roughly 115,502 students.
Laredo Middle School is located about 0.9 miles from Sagebrush Elementary School. The five-mile area around Sagebrush Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 30.6% proficiency; Sagebrush Elementary School posts 25.4%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Large.
Enrollment has fallen by 58 students since 2020-21, to 354. Students per teacher fell from 16.5 in 2020-21 to 10.6 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Cherry Creek School District
- Cherry Creek High SchoolHigh · 3,852 students
- Cherokee Trail High SchoolHigh · 3,089 students
- Eaglecrest High SchoolHigh · 2,851 students
- Grandview High SchoolHigh · 2,684 students
- Smoky Hill High SchoolHigh · 2,297 students
- Overland High SchoolHigh · 2,228 students
Other schools in AURORA
- Cherokee Trail High SchoolHigh · 3,089 students
- Grandview High SchoolHigh · 2,684 students
- Aurora Central CampusCombined · 2,468 students
- Smoky Hill High SchoolHigh · 2,297 students
- Overland High SchoolHigh · 2,228 students
- Rangeview High SchoolHigh · 2,078 students
Other Sagebrush Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Sagebrush Elementary. Sagebrush Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Sagebrush ElementarySheridan, WY · 330 students
Nearby schools
- Laredo Middle School0.9 mi · 846
- Smoky Hill High School1.0 mi · 2,297
- Independence Elementary School1.1 mi · 439
- Mission Viejo Elementary School1.2 mi · 552
- Indian Ridge Elementary School1.4 mi · 410
- The Journey Preschool1.7 mi · 75
Frequently asked questions
About Sagebrush Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Sagebrush Elementary School?
Sagebrush Elementary School enrolls approximately 354 students in grades PK-05.
Is Sagebrush Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sagebrush Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Sagebrush Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Sagebrush Elementary School is approximately 10.6:1 (34 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Sagebrush Elementary School?
Student demographics at Sagebrush Elementary School are roughly 41% White, 32% Hispanic, 12% Black, 4% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees Sagebrush Elementary School?
Sagebrush Elementary School is overseen by Cherry Creek School District in Arapahoe County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.