DSST: Elevate Northeast High School

DSST: Elevate Northeast High School operates as a mid-tier secondary school in DENVER, Colorado, part of School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C. Current enrollment sits at 545 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, DSST: Elevate Northeast High School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment. Other groups include 20% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% White. By comparison, Denver County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. The state averages around 16.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Denver County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DSST: Elevate Northeast High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.1%, the actual is 19.9%, a residual of -0.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Denver County shows the typical household earns roughly $94,718 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Denver County runs 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students), of which DSST: Elevate Northeast High School is one.

DSST: Elevate Northeast Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DSST: Elevate Northeast High School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 26.4%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site. DSST: Elevate Northeast High School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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