Wm E Bishop Elementary School

Wm E Bishop Elementary School, a tight-knit elementary-level community in ENGLEWOOD, Colorado, operated by Englewood School District No. 1 in the county of Arapahoe, teaches 200 students, covering grades K through 6. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Wm E Bishop Elementary School sits 47% leaner than that benchmark.

Wm E Bishop Elementary School is one of 9 schools operated by Englewood School District No. 1 in the county of Arapahoe, a district that caters to 2,406 students overall.

On demographics, Wm E Bishop Elementary School logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 61%. The remainder comes out to 25% White, 8% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 22% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 79% of students at Wm E Bishop Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Arapahoe County's rate of about 50%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wm E Bishop Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 19.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.3%.

Around the school, census data for Arapahoe County shows 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. In all, Arapahoe County runs 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students), of which Wm E Bishop Elementary School is one.

Englewood Early Childhood Education Center at Maddox is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wm E Bishop Elementary School at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 33.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wm E Bishop Elementary School has decreased 21%, going from 254 students in 2018 to 200 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 33% to 25% across the same window.

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