The top reported proficiency rate is 31% in English language arts. The lowest is 13% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Colorow Elementary School
Colorow Elementary School is closed. The school’s official status in the most recent national data is listed as closed, so it is no longer an active option for families. That is the single most important fact to know about this school. It served as a regular public elementary school within Jefferson County School District R-1, but it is not accepting students now.
The last available state assessment results come from the 2022-23 school year, before the school closed. In those results, proficiency rates on the Colorado Measures of Academic Success were below the state average in all three tested subjects. In math, about one in eight students scored at the proficient or advanced level. In English language arts, roughly three in ten students met that bar. On the fifth-grade science test, about one in five students scored proficient or above, though the state changed the science cut scores that year, which makes direct comparison with prior years unreliable. Participation rates on the tests were high, meaning the results reflect nearly all enrolled students. The average scale scores in each subject were on the low side.
Beyond that one year of test data, very little else is available in the record. No enrollment count, no grade-by-grade breakdown, no demographic information, no share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, no information on special education or English learner populations, no discipline data, and no course access or staffing data. The grade span the school served is listed only as an ambiguous pair of letters, so it is not possible to confirm from this data which grades were present in the building, though the testing data covers grades three through five, with science tested at grade five, which suggests it was a typical elementary span. Because the school is closed, none of these gaps will be filled by future updates.
For anyone looking at the Littleton area, Colorow Elementary is a piece of the past. The surrounding community is a well-established Denver suburb that serves as the county seat of Arapahoe County, with a historic downtown, light rail connections, and a suburban feel outside the core. Housing values in the ZIP code area that served the school are above the state median, and similar to the broader metro. The Jefferson County district that operated the school has been through significant changes recently. In late 2024, voters approved a substantial bond measure for capital improvements and safety upgrades across the district, the first such bond in many years. At the same time, a 2023 proposal to close sixteen schools due to declining enrollment was reversed after community pushback, and the district formed a committee to study consolidation options going forward. In the same election, three school board members were recalled and replaced, a shift driven by concerns about transparency and the handling of consolidation plans. Families considering any Jefferson County school now face a district in flux, with uncertainty about future closures and boundary changes, but also one investing in facilities and curriculum, including a new elementary literacy program adopted in 2023.
Colorow Elementary itself is not part of that future. Any parent or resident researching this school will want to know that it is simply no longer operating. The test scores from its final year show a school where most students were not meeting state proficiency benchmarks in math, reading, or science. But the school is gone, and the more relevant question for anyone in the attendance area is which active school now serves that boundary and how its current academic profile, programs, and community context fit a family’s needs.
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