Career Education Center Early College

Career Education Center Early College is a high school of tight-knit scale in DENVER, Colorado, part of School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C, serveing 468 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 627 students each, so Career Education Center Early College sits 25% leaner than that benchmark.

Within School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C, which oversees 198 schools and 90,471 students, Career Education Center Early College is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Career Education Center Early College lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%). Other groups include 4% White, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Career Education Center Early College records 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.9:1, putting Career Education Center Early College tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Denver County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Career Education Center Early College performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 14.9%, the actual is 7.6%, a residual of -7.3 points.

In the surrounding community, Denver County reports that the typical household earns roughly $94,718 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Career Education Center Early College is one of 206 public schools in Denver County (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students).

The closest other public school is North High School Engagement Center, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Career Education Center Early College comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 33.2%.

Career Education Center Early College operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Career Education Center Early College has remained close to its prior level, going from 472 students in 2018 to 468 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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