DSST: College View High School

DSST: College View High School is a four-year high school of mid-tier scale in DENVER, Colorado, overseen by School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C, teacheing 533 students in grades 9 through 12.

School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C runs 198 schools in total, collectively educating 90,471 students. DSST: College View High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, DSST: College View High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%). The remainder reads as 5% Asian, 3% Black, 2% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.9:1 average. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Denver County's rate of about 63%.

After controlling for student poverty, DSST: College View High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 14.7%, the actual is 15.3%, a residual of +0.5 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Denver County indicate the typical household earns roughly $94,718 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Denver County runs 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students), of which DSST: College View High School is one.

DSST: College View Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DSST: College View High School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DSST: College View High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 20.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. DSST: College View High School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DSST: College View High School has edged up 31%, going from 406 students in 2018 to 533 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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