Soaring Heights PK-8

Soaring Heights PK-8 operates as a substantial primary school in ERIE, Colorado, overseen by St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J. Current enrollment sits at 1,211 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 379 students per school, that is 220% above typical.

St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1J comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 31,607 students; Soaring Heights PK-8 is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Soaring Heights PK-8 shows that White students make up the majority at 74%. The remainder looks like 15% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Weld County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 13% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Weld County's rate of about 47%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Soaring Heights PK-8 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.1%, the actual is 60.1%, a residual of +1.0 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Weld County shows median household income runs about $97,097, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Weld County runs 116 public schools (combined enrollment of about 61,274 students), of which Soaring Heights PK-8 is one.

Nearest neighbor: Erie High School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Soaring Heights PK-8. On composite proficiency, Soaring Heights PK-8 comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 54.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

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