Slater Elementary School

Slater Elementary School is one of the small elementary campuss in LAKEWOOD, Colorado, operated by Jefferson County School District No. R-1, with 280 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 26% below the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Across the 148 schools in Jefferson County School District No. R-1 (74,935 students total), Slater Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Slater Elementary School lists that 61% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest reads as 28% White, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Jefferson County (around 32%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Slater Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.2%.

In the area at large, Jefferson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $110,656 per year, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Jefferson County's 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students), Slater Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Wheat Ridge High School, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Slater Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 22.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Slater Elementary School has declined 17%, going from 336 students in 2018 to 280 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 48% to 61% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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