Cheltenham Elementary School

Cheltenham Elementary School is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in DENVER, Colorado, overseen by School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C, caters to 373 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Cheltenham Elementary School is one of 198 schools operated by School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C, a district that works with 90,471 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Cheltenham Elementary School lists that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 23% Black, 6% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Denver County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Denver County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Cheltenham Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 15.0%; this one delivers 11.4%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Denver County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $94,718 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Denver County's 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students), Cheltenham Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Lake Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Cheltenham Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 28.0%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cheltenham Elementary School has shrank 6%, going from 397 students in 2018 to 373 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 75% to 63% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

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