Enrollment
293
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. R-1·NCES 080480000799
Welchester Elementary School
13000 WEST 10TH AVENUE, GOLDEN, CO 80401 · (303) 982-7342 · Jefferson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL293 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 57% of Colorado public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
212 students
DISTRICT 35% · STATE 50%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 34 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 46 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 37 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 36 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is 28% larger than its 5th grade class (36).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
36.1%
CO avg 44.9% . +1.4pp since 2023
Math
39.2%
CO avg 36.1% . +19.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 20 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.1% | 39.2% |
| 2023-24 | 34.7% | 19.6% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
31.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.9%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Welchester Elementary School
Welchester Elementary School's state test result (31.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Welchester Elementary School this school | 293 | 72.4% | 31.3% |
| Audubon Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 222 | 71.6% | 32.8% |
| Madison Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 265 | 73.2% | 29.2% |
| Venetucci Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 272 | 67.6% | 31.5% |
| Aragon Elementary School FOUNTAIN | 358 | 74.9% | 24.9% |
| Columbia Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 265 | 66.8% | 30.4% |
Matched among Colorado elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Welchester Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.3% | #560 of 931 | #63 of 82 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.2% | #418 of 940 ▲ 276 | #51 of 85 ▲ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.1% | #563 of 946 ▲ 10 | #68 of 85 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 293 | #734 of 1,056 | #71 of 89 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #427 of 896 | #32 of 86 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.7% | #212 of 896 | #10 of 86 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.4% | #245 of 983 | #10 of 85 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.8% | #428 of 664 | #40 of 62 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
293
+19 (+7%) vs 2020
-36% since 1990-91, when it was 458
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 13.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 293 | 19.2 | 15.3:1 | 72% (212) |
| 2023-24 | 263 | 19 | 13.8:1 | 71% (187) |
| 2022-23 | 277 | 18.3 | 15.2:1 | 73% (202) |
| 2020-21 | 274 | 20 | 13.7:1 | 76% (209) |
| 2017-18 | 336 | 22 | 15.3:1 | 68% (229) |
| 2015-16 | 296 | 19 | 15.6:1 | 65% (193) |
| 2010-11 | 300 | 19 | 15.8:1 | 57% (172) |
| 2000-01 | 372 | 22 | 16.9:1 | 39% (144) |
| 1990-91 | 458 | 20 | 22.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Welchester Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (336 to 293); teachers down 13% (22 to 19.2).
About Welchester Elementary School
GOLDEN, Colorado, is home to Welchester Elementary School, a small elementary school. The school had 293 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Colorado is about 379, so this school runs 23% smaller than that.
Welchester Elementary School sits within Jefferson County School District No. R-1, which has 148 schools and 74,935 students.
White students make up a majority at Welchester Elementary School, at 53%. The remaining shares are 35% Hispanic, 5% Black, and 5% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Jefferson County's population at about 80%. Pick two students at random and there is a 60% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school reports 19.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 15.3 students per teacher. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 72%. Among public schools in Jefferson County, the average eligibility rate is 32%.
Welchester Elementary School is graded B by allk12, scoring above 57% of Colorado public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Compared with Colorado schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Welchester Elementary School's results are 8.5 points above predicted: 31.3% against 22.9%.
In Jefferson County (population about 579,377), the median household income is $110,656, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 52% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. There are 168 public schools in Jefferson County, enrolling about 74,739 students in all.
Kyffin Elementary School is the closest public school, about 1.2 miles away in a straight line. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Welchester Elementary School. On state test proficiency, Welchester Elementary School ranks 5th in a group of 6 nearby schools.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment climbed 7% from its 2020-21 level of 274. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 13.7:1 to 15.3:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at Welchester Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Jefferson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,377
Census ACS
Median income
$110,656
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
52%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
168
74,739 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jefferson County School District No. R-1
- Arvada West High SchoolHigh · 1,923 students
- Ralston Valley Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,875 students
- Chatfield High SchoolHigh · 1,808 students
- Lakewood High SchoolHigh · 1,735 students
- Columbine High SchoolHigh · 1,710 students
- Golden High SchoolHigh · 1,469 students
Other schools in GOLDEN
- Golden High SchoolHigh · 1,469 students
- Bell Middle SchoolMiddle · 774 students
- Golden View Classical AcademyCombined · 737 students
- Fairmount Elementary SchoolElementary · 601 students
- Kyffin Elementary SchoolElementary · 503 students
- Mitchell Elementary SchoolElementary · 478 students
Nearby schools
- Kyffin Elementary School1.2 mi · 503
- Warren Tech1.2 mi · 32
- McLain Community High School1.2 mi · 349
- Longview High School1.4 mi · 20
- Stober Elementary School1.5 mi · 348
- Free Horizon Montessori1.8 mi · 382
Frequently asked questions
About Welchester Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Welchester Elementary School?
Welchester Elementary School enrolls approximately 293 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Welchester Elementary School serve?
Welchester Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Welchester Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Welchester Elementary School is approximately 15.3:1 (19 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Welchester Elementary School?
Student demographics at Welchester Elementary School are roughly 53% White, 35% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Welchester Elementary School in?
Welchester Elementary School is part of Jefferson County School District No. R-1.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.