The top reported proficiency rate is 59% in Science. The lowest is 46% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Crest View Elementary School
Crest View Elementary is a regular public school in north Boulder, serving kindergarten through fifth grade within the Boulder Valley School District. The student body is majority white, with a substantial Hispanic population and smaller shares of Asian, multiracial, Black, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students. A considerable portion of families qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school draws from a neighborhood shaped by Boulder’s distinctive character: a college town anchored by the University of Colorado Boulder, with a walkable downtown, a pedestrian Pearl Street Mall, and a low-rise skyline preserved by building height limits that protect views of the Flatirons. The city hosts major federal research laboratories and aerospace employers, and its housing market reflects that affluence. By national standards, home values in the immediate area are high, and rents are steep enough that buying is meaningfully more expensive than renting at current mortgage rates.
Academically, Crest View’s state assessment results place the school’s overall proficiency across tested subjects above most of its peers when compared with other Boulder County districts. In English language arts, more than half of students performed at or above the state’s proficiency bar. In science, the share was roughly the same. In math, the proficiency rate was lower than in the other subjects. Those results are drawn from the Colorado Measures of Academic Success, and participation rates were high. Because the school serves only elementary grades, there is no graduation rate or chronic absenteeism data to report. No discipline data, course access information, or staffing ratios were available in the source material.
The district context adds important financial and enrollment dynamics. In 2022, voters approved a historically large bond issue to fund safety upgrades, mental health spaces, classroom additions, and mechanical and technology improvements across all district schools, with construction phased over several years. That same ballot included a mill levy override generating ongoing annual revenue specifically for teacher and staff compensation. At the same time, the district has seen a decline in total enrollment over the past decade, and the school board voted in late 2024 to close two small elementary schools due to low enrollment and high per-pupil costs. A new elementary school opened in a growth area of Erie, suggesting the district is managing uneven enrollment pressures across its boundaries.
For a family considering Crest View, the school sits within a high-cost, amenity-rich college town with strong district investment in facilities and staff pay. The academic picture shows a school with solid performance in English and science and a math result that a parent may want to look into further. The enrollment decline in the broader district is worth noting, though it is concentrated in small rural schools rather than in Boulder proper. The peer environment is economically mixed for the area, and the school’s size means students move through elementary grades in a single building. The setting in north Boulder places the school near open space and trails, a short connection to downtown, and within a district that is in the middle of significant capital improvements while also consolidating underenrolled buildings.
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