Wilder Elementary School

As an expansive K-5 school in LITTLETON, Colorado, Wilder Elementary School instructs 592 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Littleton School District No. 6 in the county of Arapahoe. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Wilder Elementary School sits 56% bigger than that benchmark.

Littleton School District No. 6 in the county of Arapahoe runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 13,109 students. Wilder Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Wilder Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). Beyond that, the school records 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 9% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Arapahoe County (around 50%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Wilder Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 66.0%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Arapahoe County) records that the typical household earns roughly $101,087 per year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Wilder Elementary School is one of 176 public schools in Arapahoe County (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students).

Goddard Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wilder Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 40.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wilder Elementary School has declined 13%, going from 677 students in 2018 to 592 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.

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