Stone Mountain Elementary

Stone Mountain Elementary is an elementary campus of mid-sized scale in HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colorado, part of Douglas County School District No. Re 1, enrolling 452 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Douglas County School District No. Re 1 runs 89 schools in total, collectively educating 61,550 students. Stone Mountain Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Stone Mountain Elementary lists that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% Asian.

On the resource side, Stone Mountain Elementary records 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 4% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Douglas County (around 18%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Stone Mountain Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Colorado public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 64.6%; Stone Mountain Elementary posts 81.5%, +16.9 points above that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Douglas County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $149,594 per year, about 62% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Douglas County runs 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,841 students), of which Stone Mountain Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Saddle Ranch Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Stone Mountain Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 60.6%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Stone Mountain Elementary's enrollment has contracted 26% since 2018, when it stood at 609 (now 452). Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.