Denver Language School

Denver Language School is an elementary campus of roomy scale in DENVER, Colorado, part of School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C, teacheing 930 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 145% larger than the state mean of about 379.

Across the 198 schools in School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C (90,471 students total), Denver Language School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Denver Language School logs that the most-represented group is White (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 31% Hispanic, 17% multiracial, 7% Asian, 4% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Denver Language School records 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 21% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Denver County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Denver Language School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.2%, the actual is 63.0%, a residual of +8.8 points.

In the surrounding community, 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%. In all, Denver County runs 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students), of which Denver Language School is one.

The closest other public school is Montclair School of Academics and Enrichment, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Denver Language School. On composite proficiency, Denver Language School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 32.8%.

Denver Language School operates from an inner-city location. Denver Language School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Denver Language School's enrollment has edged up 24% since 2018, when it stood at 748 (now 930). White enrollment moved from 50% to 41% across the same window.

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