Community Leadership Academy

Community Leadership Academy is one of the modestly sized primary schools in COMMERCE CITY, Colorado, operated by State Charter School Institute, with 316 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

State Charter School Institute comprises 49 schools with combined enrollment of 21,411 students; Community Leadership Academy is among them.

Looking at the student body, Community Leadership Academy reports that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 43% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Community Leadership Academy has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.5:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 85% of students at Community Leadership Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Adams County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Community Leadership Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 15.1%, the actual is 18.7%, a residual of +3.6 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Adams County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $94,571 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Community Leadership Academy is one of 171 public schools in Adams County (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students).

The closest other public school is Central Elementary School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Community Leadership Academy ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 11.2%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. As a public charter, Community Leadership Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Community Leadership Academy's enrollment has decreased 42% since 2018, when it stood at 549 (now 316). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 27.4:1 in 2018 to 24.5:1 today.

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