South Routt Elementary School

South Routt Elementary School is one of the tiny primary schools in YAMPA, Colorado, part of South Routt School District No. Re 3, with 130 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 66% smaller than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

South Routt School District No. Re 3 comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 326 students; South Routt Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, South Routt Elementary School lists that 79% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 16% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 34% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Routt County's rate of about 21%.

With demographic context factored in, South Routt Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.2%, the actual is 35.6%, a residual of -10.6 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Routt County indicate median household income runs about $106,489, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Routt County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,419 students), South Routt Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Soroco Preschool at Yampa, around 0.1 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), South Routt Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 62.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 8%: 142 students in 2018 compared to 130 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 85% to 79% across the same window.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.