West Ridge Academy

West Ridge Academy is a medium-sized elementary school in GREELEY, Colorado, one of the schools within GreeleySchool District No. 6 in the county of Weld and Sta. The school teaches 329 students in grades K through 8.

Within GreeleySchool District No. 6 in the county of Weld and Sta, which oversees 34 schools and 22,917 students, West Ridge Academy is one campus in the system.

On demographics, West Ridge Academy shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 47% White. The wider county runs roughly 31% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, West Ridge Academy has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting West Ridge Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 52% of students at West Ridge Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, West Ridge Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.0%, the actual is 35.6%, a residual of +0.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Weld County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,097 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Weld County's 116 public schools (combined enrollment of about 61,274 students), West Ridge Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Tointon Academy of Pre-Engineering, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West Ridge Academy. On composite proficiency, West Ridge Academy comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 27.2%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. West Ridge Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West Ridge Academy has decreased 19%, going from 406 students in 2018 to 329 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 28% to 50%. Class-load math has fell: from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.