Sedalia Elementary School

Sedalia Elementary School, a modestly sized K-5 school in SEDALIA, Colorado, overseen by Douglas County School District No. Re 1, teaches 212 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 44% leaner than the state mean of about 379.

Douglas County School District No. Re 1 runs 89 schools in total, collectively educating 61,550 students. Sedalia Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Sedalia Elementary School records that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 38% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 58% of students at Sedalia Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Douglas County (around 18%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sedalia Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.3%, the actual is 32.8%, a residual of +1.6 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Douglas County indicate median household earnings sit near $149,594, roughly 62% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Douglas County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,841 students), Sedalia Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Meadow View Elementary School, roughly 4.0 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sedalia Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 55.7%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 18%: 258 students in 2018 compared to 212 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 31% to 38% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Sedalia 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.