Southmoor Elementary School

As an average-sized elementary school in DENVER, Colorado, Southmoor Elementary School serves 431 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C.

School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C comprises 198 schools with combined enrollment of 90,471 students; Southmoor Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Southmoor Elementary School shows that White students make up the majority at 58%. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 12% Black, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Southmoor Elementary School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Southmoor Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 37% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Denver County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Southmoor Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.4%, the actual is 54.0%, a residual of +9.6 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Denver County shows the typical household earns roughly $94,718 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Denver County's 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students), Southmoor Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Thomas Jefferson High School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Southmoor Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.7%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 8%: 467 students in 2018 compared to 431 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 62% to 58% across the same window.

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