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Bradley International School
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsWhat this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Bradley International School
Bradley International School is one of the sizable elementary schools in DENVER, Colorado, run under School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C, with 574 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 51% above the state mean of about 379.
School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C comprises 198 schools with combined enrollment of 90,471 students; Bradley International School is among them.
On demographics, Bradley International School logs that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 27% Hispanic, 11% Black, 10% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 59% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 42% of students at Bradley International School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Denver County (around 63%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bradley International School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.2%, the actual is 49.7%, a residual of +8.5 points.
Around the school, census data for Denver County shows median household earnings sit near $94,718, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Denver County runs 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students), of which Bradley International School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Holly Hills Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bradley International School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.7%.
Bradley International School operates from a downtown location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bradley International School has showed little movement, going from 568 students in 2018 to 574 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 19% to 27%. Class-load math has fell: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.
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