Ashley Elementary School

As an average-sized K-5 school in DENVER, Colorado, Ashley Elementary School instructs 387 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C.

Ashley Elementary School is one of 198 schools operated by School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C, a district that serves 90,471 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Ashley Elementary School shows that 79% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 13% Black, 4% White, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Denver County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Ashley Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 14.5%; this one delivers 13.4%.

In the area at large, census data for Denver County shows median household earnings sit near $94,718, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Denver County's 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students), Ashley Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Denver School of the Arts, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ashley Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 45.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 389 students in 2018 compared to 387 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 59% to 79% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

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