Yale Elementary School

Yale Elementary School, a reasonably sized elementary school in AURORA, Colorado, overseen by Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the counties of Adams and A, enrolls 492 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 379 students per school, that is 30% above typical.

Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the counties of Adams and A comprises 59 schools with combined enrollment of 39,464 students; Yale Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Yale Elementary School lists that 53% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 22% White, 11% Black, 7% Asian, 7% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Arapahoe County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Yale Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 15.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 12.9%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Arapahoe County put median household earnings sit near $101,087, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Yale Elementary School is one of 176 public schools in Arapahoe County (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students).

The closest other public school is Dartmouth Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Yale Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 22.6%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 499 students in 2018 compared to 492 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 18% to 11%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 today.

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