Enrollment
322
Elementary
DISTRICT 517 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOUGLAS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. RE 1·NCES 080345001407
Sand Creek Elementary School
8898 SOUTH MAPLEWOOD DRIVE, HIGHLANDS RANCH, CO 80126 · (303) 387-6600 · Douglas County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL322 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 79% of Colorado public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
13.5:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
88 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 | 37 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 45 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 24 | 7% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 37 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 40 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 45 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (45).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
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CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
61.1%
CO avg 44.9% . -0.8pp since 2023
Math
53.6%
CO avg 36.1% . -0.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 61 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 have held steady.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.1% | 53.6% |
| 2023-24 | 61.9% | 54.2% |
% 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
57.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.2%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 Sand Creek Elementary School
Sand Creek Elementary School's state test result (57.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sand Creek Elementary School this school | 322 | 27.3% | 57.4% |
| Creekside Elementary School at Martin Park BOULDER | 359 | 30.1% | 74.1% |
| Leawood Elementary School LITTLETON | 321 | 27.1% | 50.0% |
| Arrowwood Elementary School HIGHLANDS RANCH | 390 | 22.3% | 50.4% |
| Chipeta Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 395 | 27.8% | 70.9% |
| Bamford Elementary School LOVELAND | 310 | 27.7% | 55.3% |
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 Sand Creek Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Douglas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.4% | #184 of 931 | #31 of 58 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.6% | #217 of 940 ▼ 32 | #36 of 58 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.1% | #194 of 946 ▼ 13 | #33 of 58 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 322 | #637 of 1,056 | #57 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #168 of 896 | #4 of 59 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.6% | #296 of 896 | #13 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.3% | #738 of 983 | #10 of 60 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.8% | #133 of 664 | #8 of 45 |
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
322
-71 (-18%) vs 2020
-59% since 1990-91, when it was 791
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 322 | 23.8 | 13.5:1 | 27% (88) |
| 2023-24 | 336 | 22.3 | 15.1:1 | 27% (92) |
| 2022-23 | 365 | 23.8 | 15.3:1 | 15% (56) |
| 2020-21 | 393 | 27 | 14.6:1 | 16% (62) |
| 2017-18 | 452 | 30.5 | 14.8:1 | 14% (65) |
| 2015-16 | 554 | 34 | 16.3:1 | 14% (76) |
| 2010-11 | 599 | 32 | 18.7:1 | 11% (67) |
| 2000-01 | 562 | 37 | 15.2:1 | 3% (19) |
| 1990-91 | 791 | 38 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sand Creek Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (452 to 322); teachers down 22% (30.5 to 23.8).
About Sand Creek Elementary School
Sand Creek Elementary School serves students in HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colorado, as a low-enrollment elementary school. The school's enrollment of 322 students covers pre-K through 6.
Douglas County School District No. Re 1 runs Sand Creek Elementary School along with 88 other schools, enrolling 61,550 students in total.
White students are the majority at Sand Creek Elementary School, with 63% of enrollment. After that, the student body is 18% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 7% Asian. Among all residents of Douglas County, the White share is about 80%. Pick two students at random and there is a 56% 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 13.5:1, with 23.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is lower than the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Sand Creek Elementary School is 27%. On average, public schools in Douglas County report 18%.
Sand Creek Elementary School is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 79% of Colorado public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Compared with Colorado schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Sand Creek Elementary School's results are 7.3 points above predicted: 57.4% against 50.2%.
Census Bureau estimates for Douglas County show that the median household income is $149,594, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 62% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 3%. There are 92 public schools in Douglas County, enrolling about 63,841 students in all.
Cougar Run Elementary School is the public school closest to Sand Creek Elementary School, about 1.0 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Sand Creek Elementary School at 9th of 9.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 322, an 18% decrease from 393 in 2020-21. The ratio was 14.6:1 in 2020-21 and 13.5:1 in 2024-25.
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Douglas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
377,150
Census ACS
Median income
$149,594
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
62%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
92
63,841 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Douglas County School District No. Re 1
- American AcademyElementary · 2,803 students
- Rock Canyon High SchoolHigh · 2,325 students
- Legend High SchoolHigh · 2,206 students
- Mountain Vista High SchoolHigh · 2,169 students
- Chaparral High SchoolHigh · 2,007 students
- Castle View High SchoolHigh · 1,938 students
Other schools in HIGHLANDS RANCH
- Rock Canyon High SchoolHigh · 2,325 students
- Mountain Vista High SchoolHigh · 2,169 students
- Thunderridge High SchoolHigh · 1,820 students
- STEM School Highlands RanchCombined · 1,394 students
- Skyview AcademyCombined · 1,358 students
- Highlands Ranch High SchoolHigh · 1,323 students
Other Sand Creek Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Sand Creek Elementary. Sand Creek Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 4.
- Sand Creek ElementaryCOON RAPIDS, MN · 557 students
- Sand Creek ElementaryFishers, IN · 520 students
- Sand Creek Elementary SchoolNorth Vernon, IN · 385 students
Nearby schools
- Cougar Run Elementary School1.0 mi · 392
- Northridge Elementary School1.0 mi · 560
- John Wesley Powell Middle School1.1 mi · 509
- Platte River Charter Academy1.5 mi · 475
- Arapahoe High School1.5 mi · 1,748
- Bear Canyon Elementary School1.6 mi · 368
Frequently asked questions
About Sand Creek Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Sand Creek Elementary School?
Sand Creek Elementary School enrolls approximately 322 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Sand Creek Elementary School serve?
Sand Creek Elementary School serves grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Sand Creek Elementary School have?
Sand Creek Elementary School employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Sand Creek Elementary School?
At Sand Creek Elementary School, the student body is approximately 63% White, 18% Hispanic, 2% Black, 7% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Sand Creek Elementary School?
Sand Creek Elementary School is overseen by Douglas County School District No. Re 1 in Douglas County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.