Ascent Classical Academy of Northern Denver

Set in BRIGHTON, Colorado, Ascent Classical Academy of Northern Denver is a low-enrollment K-5 school, run under State Charter School Institute. It serves 305 students across grades K through 8.

Ascent Classical Academy of Northern Denver is one of 49 schools operated by State Charter School Institute, a district that educates 21,411 students overall.

On demographics, Ascent Classical Academy of Northern Denver shows that White students make up the majority at 66%; the rest comes out to 28% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.1:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Around the school, Adams County reports that median household earnings sit near $94,571, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Ascent Classical Academy of Northern Denver is one of 171 public schools in Adams County (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students).

Nearest neighbor: Discovery Magnet School, around 1.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ascent Classical Academy of Northern Denver.

Ascent Classical Academy of Northern Denver operates from an outlying location. Ascent Classical Academy of Northern Denver is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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