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How has Wilder Elementary School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
592
Elementary
DISTRICT 456 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 080531000893
Wilder Elementary School
4300 WEST PONDS CIRCLE, LITTLETON, CO 80123 · (303) 347-4750 · Arapahoe County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL592 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 83% 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.
- BBeats 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
18.9:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.6:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
9%
56 students
DISTRICT 26% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 96 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 93 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 102 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 107 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 97 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 97 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (96) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (97).
Student demographics
29%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · 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
63.3%
CO avg 44.9% . -2.7pp since 2023
Math
66.8%
CO avg 36.1% . -3.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.3% | 66.8% |
| 2023-24 | 66.0% | 70.2% |
% 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
66.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.0%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 Wilder Elementary School
Wilder Elementary School's state test result (66.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilder Elementary School this school | 592 | 9.5% | 66.0% |
| Bethke Elementary School TIMNATH | 512 | 8.0% | 69.6% |
| Kyffin Elementary School GOLDEN | 503 | 10.5% | 77.1% |
| Aspen Ridge Preparatory School ERIE | 581 | 10.8% | 44.9% |
| Meiklejohn Elementary ARVADA | 521 | 7.1% | 70.5% |
| Academy Charter School CASTLE ROCK | 581 | 10.5% | 67.7% |
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 Wilder Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Arapahoe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #87 of 931 | #11 of 96 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.8% | #78 of 940 ▼ 36 | #11 of 96 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.3% | #162 of 946 ▼ 35 | #15 of 96 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 592 | #118 of 1,056 | #21 of 104 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.9:1 | #828 of 896 | #86 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 28.6% | #815 of 896 | #96 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 9.5% | #961 of 983 | #101 of 101 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.6% | #435 of 664 | #44 of 70 |
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
592
-45 (-7%) vs 2020
+18% since 1990-91, when it was 500
Student : Teacher
18.9:1
was 20.6:1
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 | 592 | 31.3 | 18.9:1 | 9% (56) |
| 2023-24 | 592 | 29.5 | 20.1:1 | 8% (50) |
| 2022-23 | 601 | 31.7 | 19.0:1 | 6% (36) |
| 2020-21 | 637 | 31 | 20.6:1 | 5% (34) |
| 2017-18 | 677 | 31.1 | 21.8:1 | 6% (39) |
| 2015-16 | 704 | 30 | 23.5:1 | 5% (36) |
| 2010-11 | 626 | 29 | 21.6:1 | 6% (40) |
| 2000-01 | 521 | 30 | 17.4:1 | 2% (9) |
| 1990-91 | 500 | 26 | 19.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wilder Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (677 to 592); teachers up 1% (31.1 to 31.3).
About Wilder Elementary School
A large elementary school in LITTLETON, Colorado, Wilder Elementary School is part of Littleton Public Schools. Classes run from kindergarten through 5, and the school has 592 students. Against the 379-student average for elementary schools in Colorado, enrollment here is 56% higher.
Wilder Elementary School is a school in Littleton Public Schools. The district has 20 schools and 13,109 students.
The student body at Wilder Elementary School is 84% White. Other groups make up 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. County-wide, 59% of Arapahoe County residents are White. The school's diversity index is 29%, meaning two students picked at random have a 29% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Wilder Elementary School employs 31.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 18.9:1. This ratio sits 2.3 above the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 9% in 2024-25. The gap from the 50% average for public schools in Arapahoe County is 41 points.
The allk12 Grade for Wilder Elementary School is A-. Compared with Colorado public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 83% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Wilder Elementary School, the prediction is 61.0% and the result is 66.0%.
In Arapahoe County (population about 659,844), the median household income is $101,087, roughly 47% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. There are 176 public schools in Arapahoe County, enrolling about 115,502 students in all.
Goddard Middle School is the public school closest to Wilder Elementary School, about 1.0 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Wilder Elementary School's average proficiency of 66.0% compares with 40.4% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Wilder Elementary School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Enrollment is down 7% from 2020-21, when Wilder Elementary School had 637 students, to 2024-25, when it had 592. Its ratio of students to teachers was 20.6:1 in 2020-21, and 18.9:1 in 2024-25.
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Arapahoe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
659,844
Census ACS
Median income
$101,087
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
47%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
176
115,502 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Littleton Public Schools
- Arapahoe High SchoolHigh · 1,748 students
- Heritage High SchoolHigh · 1,748 students
- Littleton High SchoolHigh · 1,187 students
- Newton Middle SchoolMiddle · 781 students
- Ford ElementaryElementary · 653 students
- Euclid Middle SchoolMiddle · 631 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
Other Wilder Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 9 states are named Wilder Elementary. Wilder Elementary School is the largest of the 10.
- Wilder ElementaryLouisville, KY · 496 students
- Wilder Elementary SchoolWesterville, OH · 491 students
- Wilder Elementary SchoolIndianola, IA · 456 students
- Wilder ElementaryGreen Bay, WI · 413 students
- WILDER ELEM.SPRINGFIELD, MO · 326 students
Nearby schools
- Goddard Middle School1.0 mi · 575
- Centennial Academy of Fine Arts Education1.2 mi · 334
- Leawood Elementary School1.2 mi · 321
- Blue Heron Elementary School1.3 mi · 325
- Normandy Elementary School1.3 mi · 262
- Grant Ranch ECE-8 School1.5 mi · 334
Frequently asked questions
About Wilder Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Wilder Elementary School?
Wilder Elementary School enrolls approximately 592 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Wilder Elementary School serve?
Wilder Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Wilder Elementary School have?
Wilder Elementary School employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.9:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Wilder Elementary School?
At Wilder Elementary School, the student body is approximately 84% White, 8% Hispanic, 0% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Wilder Elementary School public or private?
Wilder Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Littleton Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.