Aurora Central Campus

Aurora Central Campus is an unified-grade school of sizable scale in AURORA, Colorado, run under Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the counties of Adams and A, educateing 2,468 students in grades pre-K through 12. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 523 students each, so Aurora Central Campus sits 372% bigger than that benchmark.

Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the counties of Adams and A runs 59 schools in total, collectively educating 39,464 students. Aurora Central Campus is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Aurora Central Campus logs that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 13% Black, 8% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Aurora Central Campus has 138 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.9:1. The state averages around 14.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Arapahoe County (around 50%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Aurora Central Campus sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 12.6%; this one delivers 25.1%.

In the area at large, Arapahoe County reports that the typical household earns roughly $101,087 per year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Aurora Central Campus is one of 176 public schools in Arapahoe County (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students).

Vega Collegiate Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Aurora Central Campus ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 10.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Aurora Central Campus has increased 22%, going from 2,018 students in 2018 to 2,468 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment fell from 8% to 3% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

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