Summary:
Fraser, Colorado, has exactly one public school — Fraser Valley Elementary School — serving grades PK through 5 with 217 students in a small mountain community where families rely entirely on this campus for elementary education. The school is part of East Grand School District No. 2, which ranks 34th out of 115 districts in Colorado. Since there are no middle or high schools in Fraser, students transition to secondary schools elsewhere in the district.
Despite being the only school in town, Fraser Valley Elementary School stands out academically, consistently outperforming both its district and the state in English Language Arts, Math, and Science on CMAS assessments. In 2025–2026, third-grade math proficiency reached 60.6%, nearly 20 percentage points above the state average of 41.5%. ELA proficiency strengthens as students advance, climbing from 48.5% in third grade to 60.0% in fifth grade. The school also benefits from a very favorable student-teacher ratio of 9.8, and its chronic absenteeism rate of 22.9% is lower than both the district's 33.0% and the state's 28.4%.
However, the most recent school year brought notable declines worth watching. All-grades ELA proficiency fell from 68.0% to 55.1%, while math dropped from 63.3% to 48.5%. Fifth-grade science plummeted from 77.8% to 41.2%, though it still edges out the state. The school's state ranking slipped from the 87th percentile (4 stars) to the 68th percentile (3 stars). Math proficiency also weakens after third grade, falling to 43.3% in fourth and 41.2% in fifth, which may signal a need for continued attention to upper-elementary math instruction even as overall performance remains above average.
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