Soda Creek Elementary School

Soda Creek Elementary School is an elementary-level community of middle-of-the-pack scale in STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colorado, overseen by Steamboat Springs School District No. Re 2, works with 379 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Soda Creek Elementary School is one of 7 schools operated by Steamboat Springs School District No. Re 2, a district that instructs 2,509 students overall.

On demographics, Soda Creek Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. Other groups include 23% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Routt County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Soda Creek Elementary School logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Soda Creek Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.9%, the actual is 61.3%, a residual of +7.4 points.

In the broader community, census data for Routt County shows the typical household earns roughly $106,489 per year, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Routt County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,419 students), of which Soda Creek Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Yampa Valley High School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Soda Creek Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Soda Creek Elementary School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 59.9%.

Soda Creek Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 33%: 566 students in 2018 compared to 379 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 14% to 23% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

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