Enrollment at Bear Creek Elementary School increased by 9.2% in 2024-25 school year compared to previous school year

There were 988 students enrolled in Bear Creek Elementary School during the 2024-25 school year, 9.2% more than the previous year's 905 students welcomed, according to the Colorado Department of Education.

Among the student body, 52.2% were boys and 47.8% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were white (699), representing 70.7% of the Bear Creek Elementary School total enrollment. Hispanic or latino students comprised the second-largest ethnic group, with 166 students (16.8%).

The grade level with the highest enrollment was fourth grade, with 145 students enrolled that year, accounting for 14.7% of the total student body.

The school is located in Lewis-Palmer Consolidated School District No. 38, and has a central office in Monument.

In total, there were 881,065 students enrolled in Colorado during the 2024-25 school year.

Colorado’s K–12 enrollment has gradually declined each year since the pandemic, with about 3–4% fewer students in 2024 than the state’s peak enrollment in 2019.

The declines are concentrated in the early grades and certain rural areas, while some metro districts are holding steady or growing. Lower birth rates and pandemic disruptions are driving the trend. Colorado’s public schools are now serving the smallest number of students in a decade, a shift that has implications for funding and planning even as per-pupil resources increase to compensate.

Colorado’s teacher workforce faces persistent shortages and pay challenges. In the 2023–24 school year, nearly 7,000 teaching positions were vacant statewide at some point. Districts managed to fill only about 75% of those openings with fully qualified hires, leaving many to be filled by short-term substitutes, retirees, or emergency credentials for the rest, while 9% remained unfilled for the entire school year.

School	Total Enrollment
Lewis-Palmer High School	1,168
Palmer Ridge High School	1,071
Bear Creek Elementary School	988
Lewis-Palmer Middle School	755
Monument Charter Academy	642
Monument Charter Academy Secondary School	541
Lewis-Palmer Elementary School	409
Prairie Winds Elementary School	374
Ray E. Kilmer Elementary School	300
Palmer Lake Elementary School	286