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DSST: Conservatory Green High School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About DSST: Conservatory Green High School
DSST: Conservatory Green High School is one of the middle-of-the-pack secondary schools in DENVER, Colorado, overseen by School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C, with 556 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.
School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C comprises 198 schools with combined enrollment of 90,471 students; DSST: Conservatory Green High School is among them.
On the student-mix side, DSST: Conservatory Green High School lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 66%; the rest comes out to 17% Black, 8% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Denver County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, DSST: Conservatory Green High School has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.9:1, putting DSST: Conservatory Green High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
With demographic context factored in, DSST: Conservatory Green High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.4%.
Around the school, 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%. DSST: Conservatory Green High School is one of 206 public schools in Denver County (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students).
Northfield High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DSST: Conservatory Green High School at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 44.1%.
The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. DSST: Conservatory Green High School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DSST: Conservatory Green High School has rose 276%, going from 148 students in 2018 to 556 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 48% to 66% across the same window.
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