Centennial A School for Expeditionary Learning

Centennial A School for Expeditionary Learning is a K-5 school of reasonably sized scale in DENVER, Colorado, run under School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C, instructing 477 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 26% above the state mean of about 379.

School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C runs 198 schools in total, collectively educating 90,471 students. Centennial A School for Expeditionary Learning is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Centennial A School for Expeditionary Learning records that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 26% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.6:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Denver County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Centennial A School for Expeditionary Learning performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.8%, the actual is 50.9%, a residual of +1.1 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Denver County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $94,718 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Denver County runs 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students), of which Centennial A School for Expeditionary Learning is one.

Skinner Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Centennial A School for Expeditionary Learning. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Centennial A School for Expeditionary Learning ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.8%.

Centennial A School for Expeditionary Learning operates from a downtown location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 4%: 495 students in 2018 compared to 477 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment fell from 49% to 26% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

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