Sand Creek Elementary School

Sand Creek Elementary School is one of the compact K-5 schools in HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colorado, operated by Douglas County School District No. Re 1, with 322 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6.

Sand Creek Elementary School is one of 89 schools operated by Douglas County School District No. Re 1, a district that serves 61,550 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Sand Creek Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 7% Asian. By comparison, Douglas County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Sand Creek Elementary School has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 27% of students at Sand Creek Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Douglas County's rate of about 18%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sand Creek Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 57.4%, a residual of +7.3 points.

In the broader community, census data for Douglas County shows the typical household earns roughly $149,594 per year, roughly 62% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Douglas County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,841 students), Sand Creek Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Cougar Run Elementary School, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sand Creek Elementary School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 66.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 29%: 452 students in 2018 compared to 322 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 74% to 63% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Sand Creek Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.