Enrollment
334
Elementary
DISTRICT 423 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 080336000311
Barnum Elementary School
85 HOOKER STREET, DENVER, CO 80219 · (720) 424-9590 · Denver County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL334 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 18% of Colorado public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
296 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 50%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 50 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 52 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 42 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 6% larger than its 5th grade class (49).
Student demographics
18%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
19.5%
CO avg 44.9% . +6.2pp since 2023
Math
19.0%
CO avg 36.1% . +9.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 19.5% | 19.0% |
| 2023-24 | 13.3% | 9.9% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
14.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
13.0%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 13% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Barnum Elementary School
Barnum Elementary School's state test result (14.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barnum Elementary School this school | 334 | 88.6% | 14.7% |
| Munroe Elementary School DENVER | 332 | 88.9% | 7.8% |
| Rose Hill Elementary School COMMERCE CITY | 315 | 88.9% | 9.4% |
| Knapp Elementary School DENVER | 351 | 91.2% | 23.2% |
| Cowell Elementary School DENVER | 308 | 91.6% | 9.7% |
| Atlas Preparatory Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 286 | 87.4% | 13.7% |
Matched among Colorado elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Barnum Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Denver County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.7% | #866 of 931 | #89 of 108 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.0% | #724 of 940 ▲ 146 | #60 of 108 ▲ 28 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.5% | #834 of 946 ▲ 55 | #77 of 109 ▲ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 334 | #604 of 1,056 | #72 of 114 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.6:1 | #472 of 896 | #61 of 107 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 17.9% | #882 of 896 | #102 of 107 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.6% | #52 of 983 | #23 of 114 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.4% | #105 of 664 | #15 of 63 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
334
+13 (+4%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 448
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
was 16.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 334 | 21.4 | 15.6:1 | 89% (296) |
| 2023-24 | 324 | 21.4 | 15.2:1 | 87% (281) |
| 2022-23 | 331 | 19.3 | 17.2:1 | 92% (306) |
| 2020-21 | 321 | 20 | 16.1:1 | 91% (291) |
| 2017-18 | 480 | 31.5 | 15.3:1 | 97% (464) |
| 2015-16 | 489 | 29 | 16.9:1 | 98% (477) |
| 2010-11 | 460 | 25 | 18.4:1 | 95% (438) |
| 2000-01 | 583 | 33 | 17.7:1 | 80% (467) |
| 1990-91 | 448 | 26 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Barnum Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (480 to 334); teachers down 32% (31.5 to 21.4).
About Barnum Elementary School
Barnum Elementary School is a public mid-sized elementary school in DENVER, Colorado. It reported 334 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
The 198 schools of Denver Public Schools, including Barnum Elementary School, enroll 90,471 students.
Roughly 90% of students at Barnum Elementary School are Hispanic. Other groups include 4% White and 4% Black. By comparison, Denver County residents are about 28% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Barnum Elementary School scores 18%.
With 21.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 15.6:1. Elementary schools in Colorado average 16.6:1, 1.0 more students per teacher than here. Roughly 89% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Denver County report 63%.
Barnum Elementary School holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 18% of Colorado public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 13.0% for Barnum Elementary School. The school posts 14.7%, 1.7 points above the prediction.
In the surrounding county, Denver County, the median household earns about $94,718 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Denver County has 206 public schools with about 91,233 students, including Barnum Elementary School.
Of the public schools around it, Barnum Elementary School is closest to KIPP Sunshine Peak Elementary, about 0.5 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Barnum Elementary School ranks 5th of 7 on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around Barnum Elementary School as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment increased by 13 students, from 321 to 334.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on athletics, class schedules, and weather closures here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Denver County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
718,877
Census ACS
Median income
$94,718
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
206
91,233 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Denver Public Schools
- East High SchoolHigh · 2,476 students
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- South High SchoolHigh · 1,950 students
- North High SchoolHigh · 1,653 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,390 students
- McAuliffe International SchoolMiddle · 1,329 students
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- East High SchoolHigh · 2,476 students
- Northfield High SchoolHigh · 2,137 students
- South High SchoolHigh · 1,950 students
- North High SchoolHigh · 1,653 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,390 students
- McAuliffe International SchoolMiddle · 1,329 students
Other Barnum Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Barnum Elementary. Barnum Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- BARNUM ELEMENTARYBARNUM, MN · 348 students
Nearby schools
- KIPP Sunshine Peak Elementary0.5 mi · 146
- Munroe Elementary School0.7 mi · 332
- Florence Crittenton High School0.7 mi · 107
- Eagleton Elementary School0.9 mi · 317
- Newlon Elementary School0.9 mi · 293
- KIPP Sunshine Peak Academy1.1 mi · 301
Frequently asked questions
About Barnum Elementary SchoolHow large is Barnum Elementary School?
Barnum Elementary School enrolls approximately 334 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Barnum Elementary School serve?
Barnum Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Barnum Elementary School have?
Barnum Elementary School employs 21 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Barnum Elementary School?
At Barnum Elementary School, the student body is approximately 4% White, 90% Hispanic, 4% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Barnum Elementary School?
Barnum Elementary School is overseen by Denver Public Schools in Denver County.
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