Vanderhoof Elementary School

Vanderhoof Elementary School is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in ARVADA, Colorado, operated by Jefferson County School District No. R-1, works with 403 students in grades K through 5.

Jefferson County School District No. R-1 runs 148 schools in total, collectively educating 74,935 students. Vanderhoof Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Vanderhoof Elementary School lists that White students make up the majority at 64%. Other groups include 22% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the resource side, Vanderhoof Elementary School logs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 37% of students at Vanderhoof Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Vanderhoof Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.5%, the actual is 46.2%, a residual of +1.8 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) shows that median household earnings sit near $110,656, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Vanderhoof Elementary School is one of 168 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students).

Nearest neighbor: Arvada West High School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Vanderhoof Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 46.4%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Vanderhoof Elementary School's enrollment has fell 16% since 2018, when it stood at 482 (now 403). White enrollment moved from 76% to 64% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Vanderhoof Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.