Clara Brown Entrepreneurial Academy

Clara Brown Entrepreneurial Academy operates as a cozy elementary school in AURORA, Colorado, part of Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the counties of Adams and A. Current enrollment sits at 282 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 26% below the state mean of about 379.

Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the counties of Adams and A comprises 59 schools with combined enrollment of 39,464 students; Clara Brown Entrepreneurial Academy is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Clara Brown Entrepreneurial Academy reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 19% Black, 13% White, 12% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 22% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 74% of students at Clara Brown Entrepreneurial Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Arapahoe County (around 50%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Clara Brown Entrepreneurial Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 21.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.7%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Arapahoe County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $101,087 per year, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Arapahoe County runs 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students), of which Clara Brown Entrepreneurial Academy is one.

Virginia Court Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Clara Brown Entrepreneurial Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Clara Brown Entrepreneurial Academy at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 12.0%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 48%: 543 students in 2018 compared to 282 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 26% to 19%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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