Description: Elk Creek Elementary is located in New Castle, Colorado, which serves as the gateway to the Western Colorado Rocky Mountains and is located along the Colorado River. We are located only an hour away from two world - renowned ski resorts, Aspen and Vail, and our area provides year round opportunities to appreciate the beauty of Colorado. We serve a community of 285 students from Preschool through fourth grade. Our student enrollment is a reflection of our community population, with our student count being 48% White and 45% Hispanic along with 47% of our students receiving free/reduced meals.
Our school opened as a Preschool - 4th grade elementary school in the fall of 2008 when our neighboring school became overpopulated. Many of our staff worked together previously at the former school and came willingly to Elk Creek Elementary. Through the years here at Elk Creek our experienced staff has work diligently every day to bring our vision to life that “we will create a positive learning community that inspires all students and staff to become lifelong learners who will reach their highest potential.”
Elk Creek Elementary has set a tradition as being a school of high achievement for all students. We have a network of Solutions Teams that focus on the areas of Family/Homework, Community, Response to Intervention (RtI), Positive Culture, Attendance, and English Language Learners, all led by teacher leaders. Each of these teams set quarterly goals to work towards.
Some goals focus on school wide needs while others focus on specific subgroups of students, ultimately focusing on our “hotlist” students. Each team meets monthly to review progress towards their goals and we also all meet together as one group at the end of each quarter to share our results and any new goals that have been set. This tight network allows the whole team to stay informed and enables us to support each other while helping all students to be successful.
We have many traditions at Elk Creek Elementary to readily provide students and families with books to create a love of reading. Books are given to families at the beginning of each year at Fall Home Visits and approximately 1,000 books are awarded to students throughout each year as positive incentives for weekly student successes.
Elk Creek Elementary exhibits a variety of strengths. We have a culture of high expectations for our students and staff. Both our leadership team and classroom teachers advocate maximizing our time within our schedule to provide opportunities to learn and thetime on task of our students. We continuously work to improve our home to school relations and welcome parent feedback through an online parent surveys. We have multiple parent, community, and high school volunteers present in our classrooms each day, strengthening our support system for our students. Families who struggle with homework, can be supported by staff and parent volunteers who run our daily homework support system called Homework Café. With frequent monitoring and feedback provided around instruction, our teachers work each day to become better at their practice. Systems are in place that allows teachers to observe and give feedback to each other as well, which is successful because of the trust and respect that they have in each other as a team.
In the short amount of time that Elk Creek Elementary has been in existence many great accomplishments have materialized due to the hard work of our students, strong partnership with our families, and dedication of our staff. We work hard “to encourage, nurture, and challenge every student, every day,” just as our district vision statement sites. Students with significant gaps are supported and embraced by the whole staff as it takes a village to raise a child. In 2012 we were honored to be a recipient of the Colorado Governors Distinguished Improvement Award, recognizing our efforts to be a school of high achievement and high growth. We continue to work hard each day to rise to these high expectations. We take an intense look at our yearly data and put into place our plan to address the needs of our students so that we can continue to close the achievement gaps and see the growth of all of our students.
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| Type | Report Date | Category | Finding |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspection | 2025-11-19 | Supervisory | |
| Inspection | 2025-01-22 | Supervisory | |
| Inspection | 2024-02-21 | Supervisory | |
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