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What's the one class at Wildcat Mountain Elementary School every student should take?
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Enrollment
423
Elementary
DISTRICT 517 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOUGLAS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. RE 1·NCES 080345001639
Wildcat Mountain Elementary School
6585 LIONSHEAD PARKWAY, LITTLETON, CO 80124 · (303) 387-6925 · Douglas County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL423 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 90% of Colorado public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
14.8:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
66 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 | 26 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 77 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (77).
Student demographics
49%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
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
71.8%
CO avg 44.9% . +2.1pp since 2023
Math
68.9%
CO avg 36.1% . +9.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.8% | 68.9% |
| 2023-24 | 69.7% | 59.2% |
% 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
66.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.3%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 Wildcat Mountain Elementary School
Wildcat Mountain Elementary School's state test result (66.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wildcat Mountain Elementary School this school | 423 | 15.6% | 66.5% |
| Erie Elementary School ERIE | 486 | 17.5% | 66.2% |
| Willow Creek Elementary School CENTENNIAL | 462 | 14.7% | 65.8% |
| Littleton Academy LITTLETON | 455 | 10.8% | 69.5% |
| Highlands Elementary School ERIE | 528 | 15.3% | 65.0% |
| Eldorado K-8 School SUPERIOR | 529 | 15.1% | 69.9% |
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 Wildcat Mountain Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Douglas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.5% | #83 of 931 | #18 of 58 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.9% | #59 of 940 ▲ 68 | #12 of 58 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.8% | #71 of 946 ▲ 16 | #17 of 58 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 423 | #384 of 1,056 | #37 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #356 of 896 | #17 of 59 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.4% | #468 of 896 | #30 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.6% | #887 of 983 | #30 of 60 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.2% | #155 of 664 | #13 of 45 |
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
423
-42 (-9%) vs 2020
-37% since 2000-01, when it was 669
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 15.5:1
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 | 423 | 28.5 | 14.8:1 | 16% (66) |
| 2023-24 | 416 | 31.4 | 13.3:1 | 14% (60) |
| 2022-23 | 438 | 29.2 | 15.0:1 | 4% (17) |
| 2020-21 | 465 | 30 | 15.5:1 | 6% (28) |
| 2017-18 | 581 | 32.5 | 17.9:1 | 5% (29) |
| 2015-16 | 637 | 30 | 21.2:1 | 6% (37) |
| 2010-11 | 604 | 30 | 20.1:1 | 5% (30) |
| 2000-01 | 669 | 35 | 19.1:1 | 1% (6) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wildcat Mountain Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (581 to 423); teachers down 12% (32.5 to 28.5).
About Wildcat Mountain Elementary School
Wildcat Mountain Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school with an address in LITTLETON, Colorado. The school has 423 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5.
Douglas County School District No. Re 1 has a total of 89 schools and 61,550 students, Wildcat Mountain Elementary School among them.
The student body at Wildcat Mountain Elementary School is 69% White. Other reported shares: 13% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 7% Asian. Douglas County's residents are about 80% White, 11 points above the school's share. A diversity index of 49% means there is a 49% chance two randomly chosen students at Wildcat Mountain Elementary School are from different groups.
The school had 28.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 14.8:1. The school's 14.8:1 compares with an average of 16.6:1 for elementary schools in Colorado. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 16%. That is in line with the 18% average for public schools in Douglas County.
Among Colorado public elementary schools, Wildcat Mountain Elementary School outscored 90%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Wildcat Mountain Elementary School is +9.2 points: 66.5% actual, 57.3% predicted.
Looking at the county, Douglas County, median household income comes to about $149,594, roughly 62% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 3%. Douglas County has 92 public schools with about 63,841 students, including Wildcat Mountain Elementary School.
The closest school to Wildcat Mountain Elementary School is Redstone Elementary School, located about 0.5 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, Wildcat Mountain Elementary School is ahead of the 56.7% nearby average, ranking 3rd of 9.
Locale data from NCES put Wildcat Mountain Elementary School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Over 4 years, enrollment decreased by 42 students, from 465 to 423.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Wildcat Mountain Elementary School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Douglas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
377,150
Census ACS
Median income
$149,594
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
62%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
92
63,841 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Douglas County School District No. Re 1
- American AcademyElementary · 2,803 students
- Rock Canyon High SchoolHigh · 2,325 students
- Legend High SchoolHigh · 2,206 students
- Mountain Vista High SchoolHigh · 2,169 students
- Chaparral High SchoolHigh · 2,007 students
- Castle View High SchoolHigh · 1,938 students
Other schools in LITTLETON
- Chatfield High SchoolHigh · 1,808 students
- Heritage High SchoolHigh · 1,748 students
- Columbine High SchoolHigh · 1,710 students
- Dakota Ridge Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,277 students
- Littleton High SchoolHigh · 1,187 students
- Rocky Heights Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,129 students
Nearby schools
- Redstone Elementary School0.5 mi · 398
- Rock Canyon High School0.8 mi · 2,325
- Rocky Heights Middle School1.0 mi · 1,129
- Arrowwood Elementary School1.2 mi · 390
- Fox Creek Elementary School1.3 mi · 436
- Eagle Ridge Elementary School1.5 mi · 571
Frequently asked questions
About Wildcat Mountain Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Wildcat Mountain Elementary School?
Wildcat Mountain Elementary School enrolls approximately 423 students in grades PK-05.
Is Wildcat Mountain Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Wildcat Mountain Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Wildcat Mountain Elementary School?
Approximately 14.8:1 students per teacher at Wildcat Mountain Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Wildcat Mountain Elementary School?
At Wildcat Mountain Elementary School, the student body is approximately 69% White, 13% Hispanic, 1% Black, 7% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Wildcat Mountain Elementary School in?
Wildcat Mountain Elementary School is part of Douglas County School District No. Re 1.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.