Wiggins Elementary School

Wiggins Elementary School is one of the compact intermediate schools in WIGGINS, Colorado, one of the schools within School District No. Re-50 Wiggins, with 221 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 6. That puts it 52% leaner than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 462 students.

School District No. Re-50 Wiggins runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 913 students. Wiggins Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Wiggins Elementary School reports that White students make up the majority at 65%. The remainder reads as 33% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Morgan County's rate of about 56%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wiggins Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.8%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Morgan County) logs that median household income runs about $73,278, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Morgan County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,039 students), of which Wiggins Elementary School is one.

Wiggins High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Wiggins Elementary School. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wiggins Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 32.9%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Wiggins Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 30% since 2018, when it stood at 316 (now 221). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 27% to 33%. Class-load math has fell: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

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