Trailblazer Elementary School

Trailblazer Elementary School is a medium-sized primary school in HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colorado, one of the schools within Douglas County School District No. Re 1. The school serves 330 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Across the 89 schools in Douglas County School District No. Re 1 (61,550 students total), Trailblazer Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Trailblazer Elementary School reports that 68% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 18% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Douglas County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Around 17% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Trailblazer Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.3%, the actual is 61.9%, a residual of +5.6 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Douglas County shows median household earnings sit near $149,594, roughly 62% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Trailblazer Elementary School is one of 92 public schools in Douglas County (combined enrollment of about 63,841 students).

Nearest neighbor: Thunderridge High School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Trailblazer Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Trailblazer Elementary School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 63.7%.

Trailblazer Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 21%: 418 students in 2018 compared to 330 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 80% to 68%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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