Sunset Elementary School

Set in CRAIG, Colorado, Sunset Elementary School is a modestly sized elementary-level community, part of Moffat County School District RE: No. 1. It enrolls 261 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 31% leaner than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Sunset Elementary School is one of 7 schools operated by Moffat County School District RE: No. 1, a district that works with 1,821 students overall.

Demographically, Sunset Elementary School logs that 67% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 28% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Moffat County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Sunset Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.6%; this one delivers 35.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Moffat County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $73,849 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Moffat County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,821 students), of which Sunset Elementary School is one.

Moffat County High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Sunset Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Sunset Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 25.4%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sunset Elementary School has contracted 25%, going from 348 students in 2018 to 261 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 79% to 67% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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