Welchester Elementary School

Set in GOLDEN, Colorado, Welchester Elementary School is a compact elementary school, run under Jefferson County School District No. R-1. It serves 293 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Welchester Elementary School sits 23% smaller than that benchmark.

Jefferson County School District No. R-1 comprises 148 schools with combined enrollment of 74,935 students; Welchester Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Welchester Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 35% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Welchester Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.9%; this one delivers 31.3%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) records that the typical household earns roughly $110,656 per year, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Welchester Elementary School is one of 168 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students).

Kyffin Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Welchester Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Welchester Elementary School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.2%.

Welchester Elementary School operates from a suburban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 13%: 336 students in 2018 compared to 293 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 29% to 35% over that span.

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