Wilmot Elementary School

Wilmot Elementary School, a mid-sized primary school in EVERGREEN, Colorado, operated by Jefferson County School District No. R-1, teaches 327 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Jefferson County School District No. R-1 comprises 148 schools with combined enrollment of 74,935 students; Wilmot Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Wilmot Elementary School lists that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Wilmot Elementary School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 12% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wilmot Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.3%, the actual is 64.3%, a residual of +5.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $110,656 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Wilmot Elementary School is one of 168 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students).

Evergreen High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wilmot Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wilmot Elementary School at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 65.2%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Five-year trend. Wilmot Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 17% since 2018, when it stood at 396 (now 327). Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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