Colorado Early Colleges Aurora

Colorado Early Colleges Aurora is one of the middle-of-the-pack four-year high schools in AURORA, Colorado, overseen by State Charter School Institute, with 567 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

State Charter School Institute runs 49 schools in total, collectively educating 21,411 students. Colorado Early Colleges Aurora is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Colorado Early Colleges Aurora shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 13% Black, 12% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 22% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.1:1. The state averages around 16.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 77% of students at Colorado Early Colleges Aurora qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Arapahoe County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Colorado Early Colleges Aurora sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.0%; this one delivers 10.2%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Arapahoe County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $101,087 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Arapahoe County's 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students), Colorado Early Colleges Aurora is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Wildflower Montessori Public Schools of Colorado Aurora, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Colorado Early Colleges Aurora comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 14.6%.

The school occupies a city-core site. Colorado Early Colleges Aurora operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 127%: 250 students in 2018 compared to 567 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 54% to 66% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 24.1:1 today.

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