Silverthorne Elementary School

Silverthorne Elementary School is an elementary campus of reasonably sized scale in SILVERTHORNE, Colorado, operated by Summit School District No. Re 1, educateing 339 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Summit School District No. Re 1 runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 3,473 students. Silverthorne Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Silverthorne Elementary School records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 42% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Summit County as a whole is about 17% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Silverthorne Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Silverthorne Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 39.5%; actual is 23.1%, a gap of -16.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Summit County) logs that median household income runs about $109,773, 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Summit County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,473 students), of which Silverthorne Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Dillon Valley Elementary School, around 2.7 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Silverthorne Elementary School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 44.7%.

Silverthorne Elementary School operates from a town-based location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Silverthorne Elementary School has grew 8%, going from 315 students in 2018 to 339 in 2025. The White share of enrollment rose from 23% to 42% over that span.

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