West Woods Elementary School

West Woods Elementary School, a medium-sized K-5 school in ARVADA, Colorado, one of the schools within Jefferson County School District No. R-1, enrolls 542 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so West Woods Elementary School sits 43% bigger than that benchmark.

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

Demographically, West Woods Elementary School shows that nearly all students (84%) are White. The remainder comes out to 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 4% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Jefferson County's rate of about 32%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, West Woods Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.4%, the actual is 72.0%, a residual of +7.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Jefferson County shows median household earnings sit near $110,656, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jefferson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students), of which West Woods Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Van Arsdale Elementary School, around 2.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts West Woods Elementary School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 53.9%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West Woods Elementary School has contracted 27%, going from 743 students in 2018 to 542 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 today.

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